Re: [office] Date and Timezone: draft text

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
wrote on 07/07/2008 08:55:11 AM:

> 2008/7/7  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:
> 
> >   But current practice, and current user
> > expectations is that date calculations are not time zone sensitive
in
> > spreadsheets.
> 
> So who makes the first move to improve things?
> Wait for Excel?
> 

As I said before, I'd like to advance the state of
the art in spreadsheet analytics in ODF 1.3.  We're certainly collecting
a good set of ideas in that area, from numbers with units, to stronger
type checking, to time-zone sensitive dates, etc.

I don't care which application implements it first.
 We're dealing with the format here.

-Rob