Issue 22183

Summary: Cannot change date format in header/footer
Product: Calc Reporter: antonbijl <antonbijl>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P4 CC: don.troodon, issues, ooo, peter
Version: OOo 1.1   
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Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description antonbijl 2003-11-06 07:46:20 UTC
When inserting a date field in either the header or footer of a spreadsheet, 
the default OOo format MM/DD/YYYY is used. No regard is taken of the locale 
setting on either the operating system or in the OOo options. There also 
appears to be no way of inserting the date in a different format, since none of 
the standard menus can be used when the header edit dialog is open. Right-
clicking on the field in the header edit dialog does nothing.

Ideally, the default format should be used should be taken from the locale 
setting. As a second best option, the standard Insert > Fields menu should be 
available in this dialog. As a last resort it should at least be possible to 
edit the format that the date is presented in after inserting it.
Comment 1 Unknown 2003-11-06 08:37:23 UTC
Created attachment 10995 [details]
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Comment 2 Unknown 2003-11-06 08:38:30 UTC
Works for me. When I change the locale language, the header date
format changes correctly.
Comment 3 frank 2003-11-06 08:54:21 UTC
Hi,

works for me too. 

Check your settings under Tools-Options-Language Settings. If they are
set to default, the system locale is used. If not, the choosen locale
setting is used.

Frank
Comment 4 frank 2003-11-06 08:54:47 UTC
closed worksforme
Comment 5 antonbijl 2003-11-06 10:05:04 UTC
Thanks guys. Having now tested it with other locales I agree. The 
real issue here is actually that the date format on the OOo South 
African locale is MM/DD/YYYY when the actual standard in South Africa 
is YYYY/MM/DD (but a lot of people also use DD/MM/YYYY). I will log 
this as a separate issue.
Comment 6 ooo 2004-03-13 22:32:22 UTC
Reopening this issue because if I create a new one someone will mark it as a 
duplicate because it will have the same subject. 
 
But what the subject actually says (Cannot change date format in 
header/footer) is still not fixed. 
 
You can only have the format that the locale is set to - but sometimes you 
what another format than that - and there are more locale formats than just 
one (both a short and a long version). 
 
For time you also sometimes just need HH:MM. 
 
And then there are the ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD - which should always be 
available - let's make OOo the standard compliant office suite - not only when 
it comes to document formats but everywhere when possible. 
Comment 7 frank 2004-03-15 08:42:33 UTC
Hi Bettina,

one for you.

Frank
Comment 8 r_vinoya 2005-01-12 01:15:53 UTC
I agree to comment made by cs (Sat Mar 13 14:32:22 -0800 2004 ):

(Cannot change date format in header/footer) is still not fixed. 
Comment 9 frank 2005-06-10 09:45:45 UTC
*** Issue 49061 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 10 frank 2007-07-06 12:45:17 UTC
*** Issue 77082 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 bobharvey 2008-10-30 21:05:24 UTC
I just tried this in version 3.0 and you still can't change the date format in
headers/footers.

I too would like to standardise on ISO standard date formats.
Comment 12 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:58:01 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements". 
Comment 13 bobharvey 2010-08-01 15:04:08 UTC
I just tried this in 3.2.0 under linux, and was able to create a custom field
style YYYY-MM-DD-ddd and insert it in a footer.

First I added the field, and got the locale default, then right clicked on it
and selected 'fields' and was able to modify the field format.

Does that mean this is fixed?
Comment 14 lichen 2010-08-01 18:02:49 UTC
The original issue was for spreadsheets, and I am still unable to format dates
in header or footer (right click does nothing). I think bobharvey was looking at
writer perhaps.
Comment 15 Peter Lairo 2010-09-23 18:55:34 UTC
As an American (Locale = English) living in Germany, this is a pretty serious
issue for me. I cannot make the Spreadsheet footer's date something that Germans
will understand (and I don't want to set my locale to German).
Comment 16 caerbryn 2010-10-21 18:37:35 UTC
The date in headers and footers in OOo Writer can be formatted, or rather, 
added as fields.  Surely, for consistency, Calc and Writer should use the same 
facilities and procedure for setting the date format.