Re: Gnumeric 0.76 experiences (long)

[Neil Booth <neil daikokuya demon co uk>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:-

> > 4. Parsing
> > =datevalue("21-Dec-1975") 
> This is a tricky problem.  The XL format specifier strings are a
> mess and mapping from unix style locale info to them is non-trivial.
> At present all we support is to guess
>     d/m/y vs m/d/y
> I have not found a decent way to find which separator to use.
> Any have any ideas ?

You should accept both 21/12/95 and 21-12-95; Excel does.  It is quite
reasonable to expect people sharing a sheet or computer to have
different habits.

Neil.