-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2005-11-28 at 07:47 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
All right. Accepted. So explain to me why the same thing happens in Windows XP?
I have no idea! :-)
Windows is not as polite to us Indians as Linux is. There is no separate locale setting called India which automatically sets the date etc format to the Indian standard. (Linux has this.)
Unbelievable! India is a very big market, I should think - unless you have several locales, and they don't know which to choose. They should look at a language instead, as Hindi, like Linux did. I really don't know, you are the other side of the world for me ;-)
So I select en_us and then customize the date format and everything. So according to Windows Control Center the default date format is DD-MM-YYYY. Even hitting F5 (Edit > Time/Date) in Notepad gives me 07:38 28-Nov-2005 - the correct format. But OOo 2_0 on Windows does not behave properly either.
But I suppose that in the options menu of OOo you can set the locale for OOo at pleasure. That's what I do: my Linux locale is set to "US", but in OpenOffice Options menu I set it to "Spanish (Spain)" instead of default. You have more liberty this way: OOo follows the system default, or you can set it to ignore it. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDiwS4tTMYHG2NR9URApAfAJ9H1d9QbPdeFCt4MD6cvmssDiQLIQCgg+aR YBp7k5PJTN4ypRktbkkzjQQ= =cYnB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----