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[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe this is slightly OT but it's related to an app I run on SUSE Linux and 
so I post it here.

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.

My settings are:

KDE Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Country/Region & Language
Short date format: DD-MM-YYYY

and 

YaST > System > Date and Time
has Region = Asia and Time Zone = Calcutta with Time and Date showing as 
26-11-2005.

This being so, how come the program is showing me the American date format? 
Even if it did not display in the ISO format I entered the date in, it has no 
business using a regional setting other than what I have specified 
system-wide.

I dug into the OOo Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages menu and 
found that User Interface, Locale Setting are both at Default with only the 
Default Languages for Documents > Western being English (USA). Changing this 
to English (UK) does not help, even after restarting OOo.

Any thoughts/help?

Thanks.