On 11/28/05, Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> wrote:
OOo honours the user's locale, if you leave OOo at "default" locale, which is the default setting.
IMO, it can not honour KDE's definition of locale, as it is not a kde application. What would happen if the user then started gnome? It would change behavior, and the rule in Linux is that applications should honour the "LC_TIME" setting.
Rather, kde should set "LC_TIME" appropriately so that applications could use it.
All right. Accepted. So explain to me why the same thing happens in Windows XP? 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.) 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.