From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] European date format
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:21:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4903.1299273707@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org> of "Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:13:22 +0100." <87wrke1te5.fsf@blackbird.nest.zamazal.org>
Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "ND" == Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> 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.
>
Interesting - I never thought of that. So I take it that if the year is left
out (implying the current year), the trailing dot is included because it
is significant: the fourth day of the third month - is that correct?
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 17:56 [PATCH] European date format Jan Seeger
2011-03-04 19:04 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-04 19:11 ` Jan Seeger
2011-03-04 19:46 ` Nick Dokos
2011-03-04 21:13 ` Milan Zamazal
2011-03-04 21:21 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-03-04 21:38 ` Michael Radziej
2011-03-04 23:11 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-03-05 7:45 ` Achim Gratz
2011-04-08 10:06 ` Carsten Dominik
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