[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 52240] EDITING: Incomplete Date values are no longer detected

[bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52240

--- Comment #5 from Johannes Weberhofer <jweberhofer at weberhofer.at> 2012-07-19 19:53:24 PDT ---
There are three reasons, why entering "day-month" and "day-month-year" variants
of dates should be possible:

* Compatibility:
This behaviour worked as I described with MS-Ecxel 4+, MS-Access 95+,
Staroffice, Openoffice and Libreoffice. So power-users expect that behaviour.

* Usability: 
there is no "." awaylable at the numerical keyboard. So whenever you have to
enter dates, you must use the "." from the textual keyboards - this is _very_
time-consuming.

* Speed:
A typical buisiness-spreadsheet-user who does e.g. some accounting, is using
dates within the same year (older/newer dates are the exceptions). So speeds up
input, when you can enter DAY-MONTH and the processor converts it into a date
within the same year using the default locale's date-format.


I have never tried with other locales, but I would expect the following
behaviour:

A) User enters NUM-NUM: Input processor tries to match the locale's default
date format without years. When ok, the current year should be added and the
cell should be filled with a date having the standard date format.

B) User enters NUM-NUM-NUM: Input processor tries to match the locale's default
date format. When ok, the cell should be filled with a date having the standard
date format.

I do not know, if it was possible to enter "DD-MM HH:MM" before. I do currently
not have access to an older version.

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug.