Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 109840
Ambiguous date field format previews don't allow clear format selection.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:31:14 UTC
When selecting a format for a date field, the preview is set to display variations of December 31, 1999. This chosen example date does not distinguish between MMMM DD, YYYY and MMMM D, YYYY because 31 contains two-digits. This is particularly disadvantageous in countries other than the Unites States where single-digit days are expressed in a two-digit form with a leading zero. For example: D MMMM YYYY = 5 April 1999 (31 December 1999) DD MMMM YYYY = 05 April 1999 (31 December 1999) This also results in apparent redundant previews (e.g. 12/31/99) of date fields: M/D/YY = 12/31/99 (using April 5, 1999 = 4/5/99) MM/DD/YY = 12/31/99 (using April 5, 1999 = 04/05/99) Requested fix: change 31 to a single-digit day to reflect leading zero in preview.
Created attachment 71218 [details] Apparently redundant date format giving different results
Please look into this small but irritating matter.
(subcomponent mistakenly set to www; reset to ui and reassigned to subcomponent owner)
Still an irritating issue in 3.3b.
This issue is reproducible in build:9593 - Rev. 1372282 on MAC OSX 10.6.8.
This issue is reproducible.