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Re: [SLE] OOo 2_0 enters dates as MM/DD/YY violating global KDE and YaST settings
- From: John Summerfield <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:40:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0511280633070.562@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Saturday 2005-11-26 at 21:35 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
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> > I am using OOo 2_001 on SUSE 10.0 KDE 3.5RC1. I entered a date as 2005-11-26.
> > It displayed it in the cell as 11/26/05. I got irritated.
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> I entered the same date, and got "26/11/05", which is correct for Spain.
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> > KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Country/Region & Language
> > Short date format: DD-MM-YYYY
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> That does not affect OOo, I think.
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> > YaST > System > Date and Time
> > has Region = Asia and Time Zone = Calcutta with Time and Date showing as
> > 26-11-2005.
There should be _one_ place to set locale information for the system,
_everything_ should use that global setting except for particular users who
specify differently, and the users' settings should be made in _one_ place for
(each) desktop, and all desktops should honour that setting.
Having to specify settings differently for each application (I think Mozilla
suite also exhibits this unfriendly behaviour) is, as shown here, a source of
confusion, and while the status quo persists, people will continue to be
confused and inconvenienced.
A tautology, I know.
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> The Saturday 2005-11-26 at 21:35 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>
> > I am using OOo 2_001 on SUSE 10.0 KDE 3.5RC1. I entered a date as 2005-11-26.
> > It displayed it in the cell as 11/26/05. I got irritated.
>
> I entered the same date, and got "26/11/05", which is correct for Spain.
>
> > KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Country/Region & Language
> > Short date format: DD-MM-YYYY
>
> That does not affect OOo, I think.
>
> > YaST > System > Date and Time
> > has Region = Asia and Time Zone = Calcutta with Time and Date showing as
> > 26-11-2005.
There should be _one_ place to set locale information for the system,
_everything_ should use that global setting except for particular users who
specify differently, and the users' settings should be made in _one_ place for
(each) desktop, and all desktops should honour that setting.
Having to specify settings differently for each application (I think Mozilla
suite also exhibits this unfriendly behaviour) is, as shown here, a source of
confusion, and while the status quo persists, people will continue to be
confused and inconvenienced.
A tautology, I know.
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