[Libreoffice] numbers auto format as date

[Lior Kaplan]

Hi,

I'd like to inquire about a group of related bugs which are all due to
calc's auto format of numbers to date, which in some cases also changes the
number itself. Do we target these for the 3.5 life time ?

Try enter something as 1.2.3 and it will be changed to a date. The is
annoying with version number or any number format which has 3 dots in it.
The other problem is that you can't just change the cell format, as the
real content behind the date isn't the number you've entered.

LibO:
*Bug 34724* <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34724> -
CALC-Unintended
DATE formatting: make automatic date recognition optional
*Bug 36175* <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36175> - Cells
keep date autoformat incorrectly
*Bug 41577* <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41577> - PIVOTTABLE:
floating-point data from database getting converted to date

These issues aren't new, oo.org also have them for a long time:
*Bug 33723* <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=33723> - NF-DATE:
Ability to turn off Number Recognition for incomplete dates in Calc (101
votes)
*Bug 87999* <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=87999> - In
"standard" data type csv import should never convert items with one dot to
dates (36 votes)

Kaplan
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