Issue 60154 - Writer/localization: Default date format not consistent
Summary: Writer/localization: Default date format not consistent
Status: REOPENED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2006-01-07 13:43 UTC by detlevschm
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:19 UTC (History)
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Description detlevschm 2006-01-07 13:43:40 UTC 
Writer does not comply to Tools/Options/Language settings/Language/Locale
setting. Calc, for instance, does.

At this place another country "International" would be appropriate, which
formats date and time according to ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss). There is no
other way to do so :-(
Comment 1 detlevschm 2006-04-03 23:29:26 UTC 
More specifics:
Language = Esperanto delivers ISO 8601 date: yyyy-mm-dd
Verifiable in Writer: File - Properties: "Created" shows correct date format.

Writer - Insert - Field - Date: inserts incorrect date of format mm/dd/yy
Calc - Insert - Function - Today: inserts incorrect date of format yy-mm-dd
Version: 2.0.2

Best solution: OOo should use the operating system's date format or allow
customization of the date format.
Comment 2 kpalagin 2007-03-26 04:51:03 UTC 
Confirming with 2.2m11 on WinXP - date (in Insert - Fields - Date) seems to be 
generated based on localle setting of the OS, not that of OO. This would be 
desired behavior, except that many other parts of OO do not act this way (for 
example http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51662).

detlevschm,
you can choose date format via Insert-Field-Other-Document-Date.
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2007-09-24 16:23:40 UTC 
SBA->ER: Please proceed, thx.
Comment 4 ooo 2007-10-12 19:45:04 UTC 
Writer formats field content according to the
Tools->Options->LanguageSettings->Languages default document language
respectively the language/locale assigned to a text portion, so selecting the
proper language should help. If this is not what we're talking about please feel
free to reopen this issue (should then be assigned to the Writer team), I'll
close it for now.
Comment 5 ooo 2007-10-12 19:45:29 UTC 
Closing.
Comment 6 kpalagin 2007-10-18 09:09:46 UTC 
Apparently Writer just inserts date in whatever is format in the list (see 
attached screenshot).
Not sure if that is by spec or not, so reopening the issue.
Comment 7 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:19:45 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".