XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++
From: garylscott@sbcglobal.net

On 2/1/2026 4:18 AM, David Brown wrote:
> 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!

It's part of the graphing/charting library.  It's targeted at
engineers/scientists/academics.

>
> (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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