Date format doesn't follow my International settings

In System Preferences > International > Formats, I have set up my date format to be yyyy/mm/dd but the date format options available in Numbers don't include this. Numbers only gives the American mm/dd/yyyy option for an 8-digit date format.
Surely this is a bug? Is there any way to set the formats in Numbers to obey System Preferences?

Hello
Two problems in fact.
- 1 - from what does Numbers grab it's default date format?
I set the International prefPanes to "Long date" with years on four digits but Numbers defaults to 1 déc.07. Here I'm afraid that this is a bug. Maybe one linked to localization.
- 2 - Numbers offers a menu giving us the ability to change the used format but alas, the ISO format is not available. Here it's not a bug. It seems that they simply ignored this format.
*Go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu* and describe what you wish.
I already asked Apple about that because it's really surprising that the ISO format (which is the international rule) is not reachable in Numbers.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 1 décembre 2007 13:19:27)

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