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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