XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++
From: david.brown@hesbynett.no

On 31/01/2026 23:10, Gary Scott wrote:
> On 1/31/2026 12:50 PM, G wrote:
>> In comp.lang.c David Brown  wrote:
>>> On 30/01/2026 21:28, Thomas Koenig wrote:

>>>> I have not yet succeeded in getting LibreOffice to display a decimal
>>>> point with German settings, and when I use US English I get inches
>>>> for paper sizes :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> Use UK settings, not US settings.  Then at least you get sane paper
>>> sizes and measurement units.
>>>
>> and sane dates...

Indeed.  Some countries use little-endian dates, some use big-endian
dates, and one country likes muddled-endian dates :-)

>
> Date format is adjustable in many applications.  Choose the one you
> want.  Flexibility is taken to a bit extreme in GINO graphics libraries
> (a UK product), with a calendar that goes all the way back to 1066...:)
>

Dates from long ago can be very important, and challenging to get right.
  But I doubt that there is a lot of overlap between people interested
in programming with graphics libraries and people trying to match up
exact dates a millennium ago!

(In the MS Office vs. LibreOffice comparison, Excel famously thinks 1900
was a leap year.  And rather than fix the problem, MS bullied it in as
an ISO standard.)

>>
>>> LibreOffice has its faults and weaknesses, but it is still far ahead of
>>> MS Office in many aspects.  (Or perhaps "less terrible" is more
>>> accurate?)
>

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