Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:41:16PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > My system has a default locale of en_US. This means that dates > rewritten to match my locale come out like 02/27/11 (for 2011, > February 27th). I prefer to enter dates in ISO-8601 format > (2011-02-27) because of its lack of ambiguity. (i actually prefer to > view them that way too, but i haven't sorted out how to do that yet). > > I start a fresh database with libreoffice-base. Make a new table with > a Date [DATE] column in it. > > If i edit the table directly, i can enter dates in ISO-8601 format and > they get stored properly.
ACK. > > >From Forms, choose "Use Wizard to Create Form", and click "finish" to > get the default form with a grid view. > > Open the form, and enter the date in ISO-8601 format. no matter what > date i enter, it gets re-written to today's date (03/09/11). It would ACK. (And no, it doesn't get rewritten to todays date all the time. It gets rewritten to the *last date successfully entered*. > If i enter a date in the locale format, it is accepted properly. Then > if i go back and re-enter it (for the same record) in ISO8601 format, > the old date is retained (rather than being set to the today's date). See above :) > Feel free to forward this upstream if you think that's appropriate. It already was mentioned at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=26745&start=0 (That's the only thing I found, I don't think there's a OOo bug yet. - And the LibO people rightfully don't care about Base that much) > I'm afraid i don't have the space (or time!) to install two versions > of libreoffice and test them side by side. Well, given the above link it seems to be an upstream bug ;) Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: D03E3E70 `- Fingerprint: E12D EA46 7506 70CF A960 801D 0AA0 4571 D03E 3E70 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
