Re: [office-comment] Re: [office] Date and Timezone: draft text

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

2008/7/7  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:

> Dave, if no spreadsheets support it -- not Excel, not OpenOffice, not
> Symphony, not Quattro, not Google, not KSpread, not Gnumeric, not 1-2-3 --
> then it is hard to seriously assert that it is a common scenario that is
> required for the target audience of ODF.

I'm talking about users, not implementations.
People operate across timezones.

>
> I'm open to extending the state of the art, certainly.  I'd like to do a
> lot of that in ODF 1.3.  But we need to be perceptive in our analysis of
> what the state of the art is today.

And how long do we keep saying that? Until stasis sets in?



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