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.