Bug 49868 - Edit field command: Show different data than "31 December 1999", where the day is < 10
Summary: Edit field command: Show different data than "31 December 1999", where the da...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38231
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: Other All
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Reported: 2012-05-13 07:32 UTC by Tobias Burnus
Modified: 2014-07-21 13:33 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of LO 3.5 for demonstration (22.54 KB, image/png)
2012-11-05 14:36 UTC, Tobias Burnus 		Details
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Description Tobias Burnus 2012-05-13 07:32:49 UTC 
If one inserts in writer a data as field, one can choose the format.

LibreOffice shows all examples for the date "31 December 1999". The problem is that one can then not distinguish between "01 December" and "1 December" as both shows up in the same way.

Or in other words: "TT.MM.JJ" and "T.MM.JJ" look the same if the day is >10 (LO uses "31"). The same issue occurs for the month where M and MM look the same for months > "9"/September (LO uses "12"/December).
Comment 1 bfoman (inactive) 2012-11-05 12:48:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Or in other words: "TT.MM.JJ" and "T.MM.JJ" look the same if the day is >10
> (LO uses "31"). The same issue occurs for the month where M and MM look the
> same for months > "9"/September (LO uses "12"/December).

Could you elaborate or better attach a test case document, where such feature is needed?
Comment 2 Tobias Burnus 2012-11-05 14:36:35 UTC 
Created attachment 69565 [details]
Screenshot of LO 3.5 for demonstration

Screenshot. The fields show:
  5. November 2012
  05. November 2012

However, in the the "edit field" dialog window, the "Format" column lists "31. Dezember 1999" for both, i.e. one cannot distinguish them.

(For some reason, the German localization version has "D. MMMM JJJJ" twice (item 7 and 8). [I added myself the first "Format" list item with "DD. MMMM JJJJ".])

Expected:

A different date is shown - either the current one or one which has only a single digit for the day.
Comment 3 A (Andy) 2013-03-16 09:26:28 UTC 
reproducible with LO 4.0.1.2 (Win7 Home, 64bit, German)

Reproduced by the following steps:
1. Open WRITER
2. Go to INSERT -> FIELDS -> DATE
3. Select the inserted date (dialog box EDIT FIELDS: DOCUMENT opens)
4. Change the FORMAT

Result: 
You have here in the German release of LO two field types "31. Dezember 1999" (in English "31 December 1999"), but with no differences.  Because of this I kept this bug report as a bug.
There should be an option as described in the bug report to distinguish between "01 December" and "1 December" and between "31.08.1999" and "31.8.1999".  This would actually be an enhancement request.

Note: With DATE the current date will be inserted - today for instance 16.03.2013.  To test it you will therefore maybe have to change your computer date.
Comment 4 sophie 2014-07-21 13:33:04 UTC 
This is a duplicate of #38231 - Sophie

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38231 ***