[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144377] Dates are not correctly auto-extrapolated if exclude days

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144377

buggymcbug at bobmail.info changed:

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--- Comment #7 from buggymcbug at bobmail.info ---
I'm not sure I'd call the international standard for dates "arbitrary" in a bug
report about dates.

Especially as you yourself said:

> there is a definition that is used in the industry

Yes, and it's ISO8601; certainly that's what I use in all the software I write.

The bug therefore is in the ODF standard.

> It means that your second argument about false precision is wrong premise, too.

Nothing personal, but you don't seem to understand the concept of false
precision. It's a very real problem and one that the date behaviour of ODF is
going to exacerbate. I've seen countless occasions where some arbitrary value
has been used for "no data" (the -01 day in this case), only to have that value
then used as part of the calculation by someone else who didn't know it was a
"no data" value.
You may wish to read this:
https://aucerna.com/blog/logical-fallacy-how-false-precision-affects-business-planning/

By forcing an arbitrary precision ODF is definitely going to be creating
problems for its users.

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