On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:05:11PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:15 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > That's cool -- would it be possible to move the city landscape up a bit, > > and fit in a description like this? > > > > "FUDCon Brno > > 2008.09.05 - 07" <-- Does that make sense as a European notation? > I'd use 5. -- 7. 9. 2008 or 5. 9. -- 7. 9. 2008 (but I am not 100% sure > about that either). IIRC there should be non-breakable spaces after the > dots, not sure around the n-dash. We usually don't add starting zeros to > the "dot notation" (if used with spaces). If you want to go with the > other sorting I'd probably not use dots (slashes would be probably best) > and I am not sure how to correctly express ranges in that notation. If > you'd like to go without spaces, use slashes, i.e. 5/9/2008 -- 7/9/2008 > (I'm not sure if you can omit month/year). > > But generally, in Czech Republic we are used to the little endian format > with slight preference for points over slashes. > > Martin > > PS: don't take my word for granted, even though I am Czech I don't > remember the exact typographic rules for writing dates and date ranges. Slashes sound much more reasonable. I just want to make sure whatever we put in the banner is going to make sense to the European readers. Does more of Europe use that formatting (5/9/2008 - 7/9/2008)? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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