[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 150751] There should be a way to manually update fixed date / time

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150751

--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> Currently, the "fixed date" field implicitly actually means "Date of field
> insertion".

No, it means "date of field insertion *or* (much more importantly) document
creation" - it is tightly coupled with template mechanism, and is independent
of the file properties (when you can easily change file creation date).

> What @Quazgar is asking for is more like a combination of a "Set variable"
> field with an anonymous variable and a certain Date format, plus a "Show
> variable" for that anonymous variable.

Use F2 in Writer to insert a formula, which accepts any value. It only lacks an
easy way to enter dates, but easily allows to format to any supported format.
And no, this is different. Date (fixed) is more of "for-the-record" thing, not
supposed to be edited by user. And what OP is asking is the same functionality
- just with a wrong workflow *when creating a document* based on another
document as a template.

> Altering the semantics or the behavior of the Date field is

... not an option.
> Mike(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #1)
> You're addressing @Quazgar's example.

Yes. And when you extend the request arbitrarily, you hijack the request to
what was not requested.

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