Re: Gnumeric ignores locale for dates

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 18 juin 2007 à 17:07 +0200, Gerrit Holl a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> yesterday I installed Kubuntu after having used Fedora Core 4 for
> years. I configured a Dutch locale, but when I enter a date in a
> spreadsheet, it is interpreted as American rather than European:
> "12/6" is converted to "2007-12-06". Previously, it was converted to
> "2007-06-12" like I want to. How can I fix this? My locale is
> "NL_nl.UTF-8".
>
> Gerrit.

You are not the first to report a locale problem when running gnmeric in
the KDE desktop. Please, verify the locale passed to gnumeric with the
getenv sheet function:
=getenv("LC_ALL")

Jean