Go-openoffice calc strange formatting

Hi all,
Calc has here a strange formatting behavior. I'm importing a CSV table (really, output of a script) with two columns - text and time in MM:SS.00 format. Calc marks both columns as text. When I try to change second column's formatting via Format Cells... dialog, nothing happens - when creating a chart, time is still treated as text. Also I tried to prepare empty cells with correct format and copy-paste (even paste special...) data there - same result. But if I copy data manually - it's treated correctly.
Openoffice.org manual says that I'm doing right. Google says nothing about such problem. I'm curious, is it a clever feature, or an old bug (I've seen it even in 3.1.0)?

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