From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 65582 invoked by alias); 15 May 2015 22:36:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 52996 invoked by uid 48); 15 May 2015 20:03:59 -0000 From: "byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 22:36:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-q2/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408 --- Comment #18 from James B. Byrne --- (In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #17) > (In reply to James B. Byrne from comment #15) > > I point out that he Libre/Open Office developers will not provide a > > straight-forward way to set a default date and time format other than > > through the system locale (to do so requires creation of custom templates > > for each document type). So this is not simply an issue that affects a > > handful of rarefied users. Canadian and U.S. banks also now require dates in > > yyyy-mm-dd format. What was acceptable sixteen years ago is long deprecated > > in practice. > > In which case you argue that all users may need to more easily adjust their > system locales? It seems this is simply a flaw in Libre Office that needs > correcting, changing your locale to print or output documents in a > particular format is bad design. It might be a good workaround until Libre > Office is fixed though. The L/O OO people have absolutely no intention of ever altering this. https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=30216 and http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/24722/how-to-change-the-default-date-format-in-calc-to-show-4-digit-years/ asked 2013-11-02 11:41:40 +0200 >>> You can't change the default format. It is hardcoded to the locale of >>> the system and all of them use a 2-digit year by default. The reason >>> is that there are simply too many default settings to allow even a >>> modest percentage of them to be displayed via dialogs. . . -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.