Re: [O] Re: [PATCH] European date format

[Nick Dokos]

Milan Zamazal <address@hidden> 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.
> 

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