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Re: [O] Re: [PATCH] European date format
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Sébastien Vauban |
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Re: [O] Re: [PATCH] European date format |
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Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:11:53 +0100 |
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Hi Milan,
Milan Zamazal wrote:
>>>>>> "ND" == Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
>
> ND> The problem with the required final trailing dot (if you want to
> ND> leave out the year) is that it is not obvious - at least to me:
> ND> the equivalent ISO would be "-03-04" and the equivalent American
> ND> would be "3/4/" which look horrible - however, I don't know what
> ND> the general practice is in Europe.
>
> The dots are not separators, they mark ordinal numbers. And at least
> here in Czech Republic the correct typeset form is e.g. "4. 3. 2011"
> although the compact form "4.3.2011" is often used.
I don't think we have a real European format: in Belgium, a date is
16/03/2011, or 16/3/2011 for the sixteenth of March. So, here, the common
separator is the dash, but the order is well day/month/year...
Best regards,
Seb
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Sébastien Vauban
Re: [O] [PATCH] European date format, Achim Gratz, 2011/03/05