date formatting

date formatting

[Hans van der Meer]

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From Wikipedia:

In English-language <safari-reader://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language> outside North America (mostly in Anglophone Europe and some countries in Australasia), full dates are written as 7 December 1941 (or 7th December 1941) and spoken as "the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one" (exceedingly common usage of "the" and "of"), with the occasional [my emphasis] usage of December 7, 1941 ("December the seventh, nineteen forty-one"). In common with most continental European usage, however, all-numeric dates are invariably ordered dd/mm/yyyy.

From this I infer that \language[en] or \language[en-gb] should format dates normally in day-month-year order, reserving mont-day-year for \language[us] i.e. language[en-us].

But in ConTeXt both \language[en] and \language[en-gb] produce the us ordering for \currentdate. I would be pleased if ConTeXt could be changed to the above mentioned normal behaviour for english. That is [en] and [en-gb] produce the day-month-year order and that [us] and [en-us] month-day-year.

dr. Hans van der Meer



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