Re: Date format (was: How many people need locales?)
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:17:12PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:56:54AM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > >
> > > GNUmeric doesn't display the date in this format (it is up to the user
> > > to pick what format is used), BUT it does require entering dates in
> > > MM/DD/YYYY format.
> > >
> > > - unless of course you have changed the locale...
> >
> > I would file a bug against gnumeric in this case.
> > This is broken behaviour. Does in behave the same
> > when you import data from text file? Then it
> > is even more broken.
>
> Does that mean it should always take a certain format irrespective of the
> locale? If so, which format?
>
It should reject commonly used ambiguous formats (such as NN/NN/NN,
NN/NN/NNNN), or at least warn if something like this is entered.
This should ideally be configurable, but rejecting should be
the default (and independent on locale).
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