From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Vauban?= Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] European date format Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:11:53 +0100 Message-ID: <80wrkelbuu.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <87mxlawyzv.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> <3695.1299265482@alphaville.usa.hp.com> <87lj0ud7ll.wl%jan.seeger@thenybble.de> <4033.1299268015@alphaville.usa.hp.com> <87wrke1te5.fsf@blackbird.nest.zamazal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Milan, Milan Zamazal wrote: >>>>>> "ND" =3D=3D Nick Dokos 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 --=20 S=C3=A9bastien Vauban