[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116579] Date format setting not recognised

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116579

--- Comment #6 from Elmar <roberg at iafrica.com> ---
And, to add to this, whilst I do not want to draw negative comparisons to Excel
(given its massive financial and talent resources countered by its sometimes
predatory practices), in Excel if I type <13mar> it recognizes this as 13 March
2018 from as far back as I can remember.

As to standards: standards are not the law of the Medes and Persians which must
be adhered to at pain of death.

I think of a useful extension to Thunderbird where the the author insisted that
the standard says the signature must be at the bottom, after the text. Maybe.
But who in practice will scroll down a long exchange to go and look for this
when everyone else violates that principle? 

The pragmatic approach is to make the "right way" the default, and allow the
use to change this to make it easier for them to do (after 40 years of typing
on computer keyboards, I still only use two or three fingers, and I guess the
majority of users are like me.) Is that not what the point of the options is?

We look to these tools to make life easier for us as our workload increases,
and that it will take care of the standards (the most persistent one in this
case is that the date is stored as the integer portion and the time as the
decimal portion - that is the standard that counts. Not trying to force
everyone to type it in in a universal way.

Finally, even standards include the principle of tailoring - adjusting the
standard to suit culture. At least there always a reference back to the "root
standard".

I say this as humble participant in the writing of standards (ISO and others)
for many years.

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