Milan Zamazal <p...@zamazal.org> wrote: > >>>>> "ND" == Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@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. >
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
