Bug 88019 - FILESAVE FORMATTING saving sheet as xml loses user-defined date format
Summary: FILESAVE FORMATTING saving sheet as xml loses user-defined date format
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.3.4.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2015-01-04 12:05 UTC by marcelo finkielsztein
Modified: 2015-09-04 03:01 UTC (History)
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ods file. when saved as xml, loses date format (11.90 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2015-01-04 13:20 UTC, marcelo finkielsztein
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Description marcelo finkielsztein 2015-01-04 12:05:13 UTC
Problem description: 
FILESAVE FORMATTING saving sheet as xml loses user-defined date format.
Defining a user-defined format like DD-MMM-YYYY is not properly saved when the sheet is saved using "as Microsoft XMl format (*.xml)"

Steps to reproduce:
1. create new sheet
2. set a cell with value 1-Apr-2015
3. right click > format cell > format code
4. enter "DD-MMM-YYYY"
   spreadsheet shows 1-Apr-2015, as expected.

5. file > save "as Microsoft XML 2003 (*.xml)"

6. close sheet.  open saved xml sheet

Current behavior:
  Date appears formatted as 1-Apr-14.  
  User-defined format got lost while saving as *.xml

  If you open the xml file you can confirm that is was saved as <NumberFormat ss:Format="Medium Date">, hence losing the specific format.

Expected behavior:
xml file should be able to save ("remember") the user-defined format.
Comment 1 retired 2015-01-04 12:14:58 UTC
Can you please open a ods file with a date formatted as needed. After that set the bug back to UNCONFIRMED
Comment 2 marcelo finkielsztein 2015-01-04 12:40:37 UTC
I can confirm: If i save with ods format and then re-open, the date shows properly formatted.
Comment 3 marcelo finkielsztein 2015-01-04 13:20:04 UTC
Created attachment 111721 [details]
ods file.  when saved as xml, loses date format

user defined format works on ods files.
when saved "as" *.xml format, the file loses the uer-defined date format.
Comment 4 retired 2015-01-04 13:46:35 UTC
I see 04-Di-2015
Not sure why 14.04.2015 would display that way. Maybe due to Locale: de_?

OSX 10.10.1
Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 2d59c0c940ac61240992502256c966b2cb4f9daa
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2015-01-04_01:16:22
Locale: de_

Re-opening the saved .xml file shows 14-4-15 instead of the previous 04-Di-2015.
When I look at the cell formatting I see that it's set to date and the last possible option is set (just as previously was the case).

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but can confirm that date format changes after saved to .xml thus NEW.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2015-07-18 17:36:36 UTC
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Comment 6 QA Administrators 2015-09-04 03:01:51 UTC
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