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Nuss: Does your LibreOffice locale need a date acceptance pattern for incomplete date input?

nospam@example.com (Nuss) — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:26:22 +0200

Cool! Thanks!

erAck: Does your LibreOffice locale need a date acceptance pattern for incomplete date input?

nospam@example.com (erAck) — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:30:12 +0200

Thanks, added 'D/M' and 'D/M Y' to sv_SE.

Nuss: Does your LibreOffice locale need a date acceptance pattern for incomplete date input?

nospam@example.com (Nuss) — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:24:35 +0200

For sv_SE, besides the ISO way ("Y-M-D"), the most widespread style for dates is "D/M" or "D/M Y", according to the Swedish Language Council. They also claim D.M.Y is used (however, I haven't seen that style especially much).

If you need a source for this, visit http://www.spraknamnden.se/sprakladan/ShowSearch.aspx?id=id=26089;objekttyp=lan. Be careful with Google translate though, since it puts "rd" on the year in one of the examples.

erAck: Filho's Infographic of Debian with license exception does not allow use of TDF or LibreOffice

nospam@example.com (erAck) — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:56:55 +0200

Of course he is.

Anne Nonymous: Filho's Infographic of Debian with license exception does not allow use of TDF or LibreOffice

nospam@example.com (Anne Nonymous) — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:55:45 +0200

It looks like it's his own right to license however he wishes his document. He is free as in libre.

erAck: Filho's Infographic of Debian with license exception does not allow use of TDF or LibreOffice

nospam@example.com (erAck) — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:51:17 +0200

I interpret the wording "use of any material of TDF or LibreOffice in this material or derivatives" the other way around, actually I think he doesn't want to see the OOo gulls replaced by LibO icons, as Debian now packages LibreOffice.

Chris Cunningham: Filho's Infographic of Debian with license exception does not allow use of TDF or LibreOffice

nospam@example.com (Chris Cunningham) — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:46:40 +0200

What a remarkably petty move. I'm also somewhat curious as to how Claudio justifies including numerous (C) Pixar headshots in an ostensibly CC-plus-daft-clause work.

Anonymous: Filho's Infographic of Debian with license exception does not allow use of TDF or LibreOffice

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:58:51 +0200

The author of infographic wrote that document should not be used in LO or in any association with TDF. And what did you do? You posted it on your blog that is copied and published directly on the TDF blog. I hope he doesn't sue you ... ;)

Eike: LibreOffice date acceptance patterns

nospam@example.com (Eike) — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:26:17 +0200

Currently there is no option to change behavior. Maybe we should offer a possibility to edit the patterns.

Rainer Bielefeld: LibreOffice date acceptance patterns

nospam@example.com (Rainer Bielefeld) — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:14:23 +0200

Hi, I believe for most users the new behavior is a great progress, but for me it's mess, I often have to rework lists with dates, and now I need more or less twice as many keystrokes as before. Is there any trick to get the old behavior back? Auto Replace - Replace list would be really uphill (although worthwhile for me).
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khagaroth: LibreOffice date acceptance patterns

nospam@example.com (khagaroth) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:31:04 +0100

Hi, it's nice to see this fixed, depending on type of document, Czech language uses both decimal comma and decimal dot and entering or importing numbers with decimal dots was a huge pain.

I sent a patch (including the partitive month names and some other small changes) for Czech language to the LO dev mailing list. I hope I understood the acceptance patterns correctly. Czech language does have two date standards. One with leading zeros, where the separator is a dot and one without leading zeros, where the separator is a dot+space (or dot+nbsp if typography is applied). And as usual, people don't follow the rules, so entering dates without leading zeros AND without the space after the dot are pretty common.

Eike: LibreOffice date acceptance patterns

nospam@example.com (Eike) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:45:07 +0100

The change is in master only, it quite changes behavior and may need some massaging here and there, so I refrained from pushing it last minute into 3.5

Yes, CSV import also benefits from this.

Stephan van den Akker: LibreOffice date acceptance patterns

nospam@example.com (Stephan van den Akker) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:41:51 +0100

Good work, Eike!

This was a major source of frustration with Calc users. Glad to see it sorted out.

Is this already fixed in the latest beta releases of LO 3.5?

Does this fix also apply when importing CSV files?