<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textscalcguideyear2000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">19xx/20xx Years</title> <filename>/text/scalc/guide/year2000.xhp</filename> </topic> <history> <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> <lastedited date="2004-09-27T11:53:17">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> </history> </meta> <body> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150439"><bookmark_value>years; 2-digits</bookmark_value> <bookmark_value>dates; 19xx/20xx</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="18"><variable id="year2000"><link href="text/scalc/guide/year2000.xhp" name="19xx/20xx Years">19xx/20xx Years</link> </variable></paragraph> <section id="text"> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151116" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">The year in a date entry is often entered as two digits. Internally, the year is managed by $[officename] as four digits, so that in the calculation of the difference from 1/1/99 to 1/1/01, the result will correctly be two years.</paragraph> <list type="unordered"> <listitem> <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154011" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Under <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - $[officename] - General</emph> you can define the century that is used when you enter a year with only two digits. The default is 1930 to 2029.</paragraph> </listitem> </list> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">This means that if you enter a date of 1/1/30 or higher, it will be treated internally as 1/1/1930 or higher. All lower two-digit years apply to the 20xx century. So, for example, 1/1/20 is converted into 1/1/2020.</paragraph> </section> <section id="relatedtopics"> <embed href="text/scalc/guide/calc_date.xhp#calc_date"/> </section> </body> </helpdocument>