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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