Does anyone have an idea how to insert a date field into an OOo writer document, and format it along the lines of: Wednesday, 11th August, 2010
It's the "th" (or "st", "nd") I'm having the problem with. Seems unlikely it's not there but the examples don't show it and a Google has so far failed me (I can't even find people asking the question!)
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Mark Rogers wrote:
Does anyone have an idea how to insert a date field into an OOo writer document, and format it along the lines of: Wednesday, 11th August, 2010
It's the "th" (or "st", "nd") I'm having the problem with. Seems unlikely it's not there but the examples don't show it and a Google has so far failed me (I can't even find people asking the question!)
The unavailability of this appears to be a known OO bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35247.
On 11/08/10 11:11, Dan wrote:
The unavailability of this appears to be a known OO bug: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35247
Ah, thanks for at least confirming what I thought!
Has anyone here dabbled in the OOo source? There's a few little bugs or missing features that seem easy to resolve (this date formatting is surely going through a lower level function call which could add the st/nd/th if only it was added as a format), but last I looked at the source it was overly complicated (as these large projects tend to be). I am a programmer and I'd be more than happy to dig into the code and supply patches for stuff like this if I could only get started, but I never get over the entrance hurdles!
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