Comment 29 for bug 391572

I check every time there is a new release and I've just spent an hour trying it
now on several machines, even on a windows machine.
This machine (Mandriva 2009.0 64bit KDE 4) has ISO date set as standard, that
is, most apps pick up that I have selected YYYY-MM-DD as the default long and
short date.

I open OOCalc (user interface language, set to default)
I enter the date 2008-09-10
I leave the cell,
the program changes the entry to 10/09/08 (whatever that means)
I double click the entry to edit it
the program changes the entry to 10/09/2008 (whatever that means)
If I want to edit the date I have to 'guess what it means, so I enter 12/30/2008
(guessing that it is american)
press enter
oops, it's no longer a date,

This is a dogs breakfast. It may have been acceptable to write applications like
this at one time but this is a global world, (sic)
All it needs is a box for the default date format, ISO will be the world
standard one day, but I'd like to use it now.