From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] European date format
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:11:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80wrkelbuu.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wrke1te5.fsf@blackbird.nest.zamazal.org
Hi Milan,
Milan Zamazal wrote:
>>>>>> "ND" == Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org> 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
--
Sébastien Vauban
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 23:11 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
2011-03-04 21:38 ` Michael Radziej
2011-03-04 23:11 ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2011-03-05 7:45 ` Achim Gratz
2011-04-08 10:06 ` Carsten Dominik
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