OpenOffice.org Calc 4-11 date bug?

Dexter Ang thepoch at mydestiny.net
Wed Apr 28 13:57:23 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 21:40, antonio montagnani wrote:
> >On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:47, Dexter Ang wrote:
> >  
> >OK I just want to clarify what I've typed and expand on it a little.
> >
> >I use Calc for entering financial information. This would obviously use
> >dates. Now, I have an entire column of cells formatted as dates and
> >displays in the format MM/DD/YYYY. Now, whenever I enter the date 4/11,
> >or 4/11/4, it doesn't convert to the date format. But when enter any
> >other date, it does convert it to the MM/DD/YYYY date format I've
> >selected. I've also tried entering 4/11/3, 4/11/4, 4/11/5, and it only
> >happens with year 2004.
> >
> >I have also confirmed that this happens on a friends computer with
> >OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 on Windows. Anyway it seems to be an OpenOffice.org
> >bug if it happens on Windows as well. I haven't tested on 1.1.1, so if
> >anyone has any knowledge of a bug and it being fixed in 1.1.1, I'd like
> >to know.
> >
> >By the way, my version is OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 that came with Fedora
> >Core 1. I've also updated to the latest build 16. It happened with the
> >original and build 16 for me.
> >
> >Argh.
> >
> >dex
> >
> Openoffice 1.1.1 is o.k.: no experience with 1.1.0.Please check buglist 
> in www.Openoffice.org

Ok I found it. It seems it's been fixed in OOo 1.1.1. I had to search
through their mailing list to find the bug report at:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17222

Any chance of getting OOo 1.1.1 rpms for FC1? Or will I have to move to
FC2 if I want that fix in?

dex





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