https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144699
--- Comment #13 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- I am confused and would like someone to better explain where this bug stands. First, I don't understand what we want: * Do we just want consistency? Or do we want to get rid of the "real" Christian enumeration calendar everywhere in LO? * If the user enters a date from a period before 1582, how should we interpret that date? How should we display that date? * Do we want to adhere to what the ODF spec (currently at 1.4) says, or do we want to change it? * Internally, isn't a date representation, whether it's a structure with numbers of a string, always have to be accompanied by some kind of calendar specification? And if that's the case, what would "using proleptic Gregorian" mean? * Should the proposed change be a document-scope setting, or an application-scope (or rather application-user-profile-scope) setting? Second, in comment #1 Mike quoted the ODF spec, but while he said it was ODF 1.4, he actually quoted from some other version. ODF 1.4 says: > §19.341 number:calendar > > ... snip ... > > • gregorian: Gregorian calendar, as defined in [ISO8601], Section 4.2.1, > usually specified for dates no earlier than 1582-10-15. If this calendar > is specified for a date earlier than 1582-10-15, the meaning is > implementation-defined. Third: > LibreOffice is not a tool that is intended to > demonstrate *some* specific historical event when displaying dates (at least > by default). I don't think I understand this sentence. And finally - do we want to discuss this at a UI/UX design meeting? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
