Bug 131332 - HELP: replace custom date formats with ISO 8601 to stop promoting ambiguous formats
Summary: HELP: replace custom date formats with ISO 8601 to stop promoting ambiguous f...
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
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: medium enhancement
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Keywords: difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillDocumentation
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Reported: 2020-03-14 08:41 UTC by Mike Kaganski
Modified: 2024-07-24 10:57 UTC (History)
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Description Mike Kaganski 2020-03-14 08:41:51 UTC 
In Help, e.g. [1], we have date strings that use non-ISO date formats. Unless there is a strong reason to use such format (like when various formats are described/discussed explicitly), it's best to always use ISO 8601 unambiguous date strings, to promote use of international standards helping people understand each other.

The task is to find and replace non-ISO dates in Help with their ISO 8601 counterparts - where applicable.

Regular expressions like "\d\d?/\d\d?/\d{2,4}" (including double quotes) might be useful when searching them in help repo.

[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03030110.html
Comment 1 Wolfgang Jäger 2020-03-14 09:56:50 UTC 
+1
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2024-06-02 08:32:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 fpy 2024-07-24 10:57:02 UTC 
the example page (sbasic/shared/03030110) has been changed,
which raises the question to clarify the wording at top (conceptual) level :

* ISO = preferred ?
* non ISO = ??

e.g.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/01020100.html#DateLiterals

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03030102.html#par_id841643046880968