Page 28 of LO6 - "Chapter 5 Getting Started with Calc" is about data entry from the keyboard, in particular Date and Time. The text from the manual: ============ You can separate the date elements with a slash (/) or a hyphen (–) or use text, for example 10 Oct 2012. The date format automatically changes to the selected format used by Calc. ============ If I enter using mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd the data type is date. This also corresponds to: Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Date acceptance patterns Note: Order of mm, dd, yyyy is important. Even though yyyy-mm-dd does not appear in the list, if I click Help from this page: ============ Additionally to the date acceptance patterns defined here, every locale accepts input in an ISO 8601 Y-M-D pattern, and since LibreOffice 3.5 that also leads to the YYYY-MM-DD format being applied. Syntax: Y means year, M means month, and D means day, regardless of localization. ============ However, the text says the format 10 Oct 2012 is valid. When I type 10 Oct 2012 the data type is string not date. Unless I'm missing something, I think the "or use text, for example 10 Oct 2012." needs to be removed. In addition, I'd like to see something mentioned in this area about Locale and Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Date acceptance patterns, and the ISO 8601 format.
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