Re: [Xlog-discussion] date format

[John]

On 07/20/2013 07:28 PM, Andy Stewart wrote:
> On 07/20/2013 11:47 AM, HA5OGL wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:13:20 +0000
> > John <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > My workaround, derived from an OpenOffice search, was to use
> > > Find/Replace to change every " Jul " to ".7." (for example), then
> > > change my Language Setting to German! LibreOffice then recognized
> > > "19.7.2013" as a date, and I was able to change the cells' format to
> > > "2013-07-19"... then revert back to English!
> >
> > Come on... Is it you who should work, or the computers?
> >
> > I'm too old to do that. Insted, I wrote up some code that does 
> > logging for
> > me. :-)
> >
> > Levene
> > HA5 OGL
>
> Hi Levene,
>
> I'm trying to understand the usage model.  I'm not understanding why 
> somebody would export the log into a spreadsheet, when the logging 
> software can more expertly manipulate the data.  Can you describe a 
> case where this is useful?
>
> If the locale is set correctly for Germany, I expect xlog to replace 
> "Jul" with the German word for the month of July.  If that isn't 
> happening, that's a bug I should probably fix.  Is this a problem?
>
> Thanks, and 73,
>
> Andy
Andy,

Thanks for your reply, and for being kind enough not to point out that 
MY problem (I don't know about Levene's) could be an inadequacy of 
LibreOffice, not Xlog! I realized that just after sending my post.

I have many years' logs in the form of spreadsheets, with columns 
(fields) set up to mimic the ARRL printed logbooks I used in the 
pre-computer age. Besides the continuity, it's a fail-safe. Nothing 
against Xlog, but over the decades I've seen computer programs come and 
go and don't want important data to depend on any particular program. 
(Maybe ADIF exports would be OK for that, but there's still the 
historical continuity...)

The Cabrillo issue I'll address elsewhere... but if there's contest 
exchange data in the Xlog RST field and I want to create a traditional 
spreadsheet log with a standard RST column, there's a lot of manual work 
involved.

--John K3GHH