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title="UNCONFIRMED - Locale-specific arguments must be treated depending on the cell's number format locale"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143508">143508</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Locale-specific arguments must be treated depending on the cell's number format locale
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>URL</th>
<td>https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/319335/how-to-convert-non-standard-text-to-date/
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mikekaganski@hotmail.com
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<td>erack@redhat.com
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<pre>There is an inconsistency how different spreadsheet functions treat their
locale-specific arguments.
TEXT [1] takes cell's locale when processing its 'Format' argument, and thus
'=TEXT(0.1;"0 000.000")' will give different results depending if cell's number
format is set to en-US or ru-RU: "0 000.100" vs "0 000. 000".
DATEVALUE [2], OTOH, does not take cell's number format locale into account
when parsing its argument, so that '=DATEVALUE("03 Jun 2019")' will give the
same result irrespective of the cell's settings - it would be a date when
program's locale is en-US; and it will be Err:502 when program is set to ru-RU
locale.
These should be made consistent, depending on the cell's locale to allow
flexibility.
[1]
<a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3147132">https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3147132</a>
[2]
<a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/func_datevalue.html?DbPAR=CALC">https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/func_datevalue.html?DbPAR=CALC</a></pre>
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