[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 52288] [DE] EDITING: Allow truncated date inputs from numeric keyboard

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52288

--- Comment #6 from Mikeyy <mikeyy.vip at gmail.com> 2012-08-20 10:37:14 UTC ---
> If a cell has date format, "31.08" should be recognized as August 31, of
> course. It might also be reasonable to recognize "31.08." 

I have nothing against all date recognition on date formated cells. You can
even recognise 31,08, as 31.08 of this year for all I care. That would even be
nice feature since some keyboards (croatian style for example) have comma ,
instead of dot . on numerical keyboard between 0 and ENTER.

> But if a cell has both general format and contains "31.08" without the final
> dot -- why should "31.08" then be recognized as August 31? It could be equally
> well be recognized as 31.08 (the numeric value)

In croatian language, dot . is used only as thousand separator, never as
decimal separator. And dot . is never used on date endings (31.08. is wrong,
31.08.2012 is right). So, if I enter 31.8 or 31.08 you cannot make a mistake
with recognising it as date and entering 31.08.2012 as value in general
formated cell.

For example, in Excel 2003 (newer versions probably behave same) if you enter
31.08.2012. (with dot at end) Excel will not recognise it as date even with
date formatted cell.

But why do I need to explain all that, you have it already is 3.5.6 version and
you started tempering with it for unknown reason. You won't increase intuitive
usage for users, it will be worse. You won't decrease time needed for user to
enter date, you'll increase it. All in all, you'll make whole experience longer
and less intuitive and you still think it's good thing to do.

> There are even German users who prefer '.' as decimal separator, '.' is the
> decimal separator in most languages of the world...

There are probably croatian users which preffer dot . instead of , because they
do accounting for english speaking area, but they can always change their
preferences and enable dot as decimal separator.

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