Bug 156775 - Autodate Is Counter-productive
Summary: Autodate Is Counter-productive
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2023-08-15 09:08 UTC by fewilcox
Modified: 2023-08-15 09:32 UTC (History)
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Description fewilcox 2023-08-15 09:08:46 UTC
Description:
Typing the number 11 in a cell should result in the number 11 being in that cell. Instead it always changes to "00-01-10", which is incredibly anti-helpful when I'm trying to type in list of numbers. It seems like everyone on the planet hates the auto-date "feature", but no one will actually do anything about it.

I have been using LO since it was called StarOffice 5, and in all these years auto-dates have NEVER been helpful, but frequently hinder me significantly because of my mental and physical disabilities. Forcing users to deal with workarounds instead of just putting a toggle in the settings is asinine in the extreme.

I wish I had the necessary skills to fix it. Instead LO repeatedly chooses to remain yet another program whose developers don't care about people with disabilities. I should learn to assume that by now.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type a number into a cell
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Actual Results:
It turns into a freaking-useless date. Even more useless because I have to tell it I'm Canadian in order to make it use non-middle-endian-dates.

Expected Results:
The number I typed.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 36ccfdc35048b057fd9854c757a8b67ec53977b6
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-CA (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2023-08-15 09:32:55 UTC
This would *only* happen, if your cells were *pre-formatted* as date (specifically, using 'YY-MM-DD' format). It is *not* something that you call a strange term "auto-dates" (whatever you mean), but explicitly following the *user's* decision - expressed in the cell's format that user applied.

Entering 11 to a cell *not* formatted in that way would not interpret this as a date.

If it happens to you regularly, please check if you use some user template, which has this cell formatting (which would be something that its creator did, and maybe then forgot - but that doesn't mean that the program should guess that, and ignore).

Closing NOTABUG.