Re: Localization error in US date convetsion

Hi Andreas,

On Sunday, 2011-01-16 13:47:49 +0100, Andreas Säger wrote:

> After 7 years of bug submission I still don't get familiar with that
> awful bug tracker.

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/submission_gateway.html
choose application, here Calc.

> In a spreadsheet with global English(US) locale setting
> =VALUE("March/8/2010") fails but
> =VALUE("March8/2010") succeeds.

I think "March8/2010" should fail as well ;-)

Seriously, should "monthname/daynumber/yearnumber" in en-US locale be
a valid date input string?

Compare with German de-DE "daynumber.monthname.yearnumber", I think no
one expects that to be valid. Valid would be
"daynumber. monthname yearnumber". In en-US that would be
"monthname daynumber, yearnumber"

> Why is there no language group for the English locale? Do the
> developers do this job?

This is about locale dependent program logic, I think it's the
developers' job. However, for locale specific topics there's the
[email protected] mailing list.

  Eike

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