From: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] European date format
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:13:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrke1te5.fsf@blackbird.nest.zamazal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4033.1299268015@alphaville.usa.hp.com
>>>>> "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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 21:15 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 [this message]
2011-03-04 21:21 ` Nick Dokos
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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