From: "Martin Schröder" <martin@oneiros.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: questions regarding `\date`
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:03:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin4XWv7LdC3GHcKemvpa_0+dGw_=wmT+whDdML5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7CEA52.9090501@elvenkind.com>
2010/8/31 Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>:
> The Chicago manual (14ed) says that slashed/dotted dates are bad style
> and should be avoided and that one should use full month names instead.
Seconded. And if you have to use a short form, please follow ISO 8601
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) - nobody can be sure when the
8.9.10 is.
Best
Martin
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-31 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-28 14:02 Paul Menzel
2010-08-28 18:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28 19:02 ` Peter Münster
2010-08-28 19:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-28 20:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-29 10:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-08-31 8:29 ` Paul Menzel
2010-08-31 9:48 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-31 11:41 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-31 12:14 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-08-31 13:03 ` Martin Schröder [this message]
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