[Bug localedata/18408] Provide software utility to permit user created custom locales

["byrnejb at harte-lyne dot ca" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18408

--- Comment #18 from James B. Byrne <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #17)
> (In reply to James B. Byrne from comment #15)
> > I point out that he Libre/Open Office developers will not provide a
> > straight-forward way to set a default date and time format other than
> > through the system locale (to do so requires creation of custom templates
> > for each document type).  So this is not simply an issue that affects a
> > handful of rarefied users. Canadian and U.S. banks also now require dates in
> > yyyy-mm-dd format.  What was acceptable sixteen years ago is long deprecated
> > in practice.
> 
> In which case you argue that all users may need to more easily adjust their
> system locales? It seems this is simply a flaw in Libre Office that needs
> correcting, changing your locale to print or output documents in a
> particular format is bad design. It might be a good workaround until Libre
> Office is fixed though.

The L/O OO people have absolutely no intention of ever altering this.  

https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=30216

and

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/24722/how-to-change-the-default-date-format-in-calc-to-show-4-digit-years/

asked 2013-11-02 11:41:40 +0200 

>>> You can't change the default format. It is hardcoded to the locale of
>>> the system and all of them use a 2-digit year by default. The reason
>>> is that there are simply too many default settings to allow even a
>>> modest percentage of them to be displayed via dialogs. . .

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