On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 13:50:49 +0200, Jakub wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> * Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]>, 2015-10-03, 20:19: > >>>. as a date separator is awful. > >>riiight, don't ever learn Norwegian. ;o) > >Norwegian doesn't use «.» as a date separator, we use - (as in, > >2015-10-03). ..ååå? (="awww?"='oh yeah?') ;o) ..I receive bills going "01.10.2015", "27/08/15" ... > Arnt is obviously confusing Norwegian with Polish, where you write ...and I've seen “3.10.2015” and “3/X/2015” too, all in Norwegian ... > >If you're more of a traditionalist, you'd probably write «3. oktober > >2015», where the «.» isn't a separator, it's punctuation to convert > >the 3 into an ordinal number. ...so make up your own minds. ;o) ..me, I grew up "22/9-2015"-style. ;oD > Trailing “.” works cardinal-to-ordinal converter in Polish too. > However, most of the time use of the suffix is optional, and in fact > you should not use it in dates when you spell out the month: “3 > października 2015” (even though 3 is ordinal here). > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
