Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
>>> <p>
>>> On 12 June 2026, three years after the initial release, the regular
>>
>> (I'm standardising to this date format everywhere else, since it's the
>> format that styleguides generally recommend.)
>
> OK, thanks. But, when Debian has started using that date format? I
> still see the format that I used in the trixie release information:
> ("Debian 13.5 was released on May 16th, 2026. Debian 13.0 was initially
> released on August 9th, 2025.").
> https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/
> And used because of that. Any way, I'm happy to accept your change.
It's true that even when they're being consistent, native English
speakers show no particular sign of preferring "16 May 2025" to the
alternatives; but sources like the Chicago Manual of Style seem
convinced it's the Official Correct Format, so when I'm proofreading
and I find a single text using different styles, that's the one I
standardise towards.
> For the future, is there any written guideline about formats (in
> general)?
The Debian Project News guidelines for contributors always used to
point at "https://www.mhra.org.uk/style/";, but we might be better off
using "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style"; these
days - see also my notes at
"https://salsa.debian.org/publicity-team/styleguide/-/blob/main/Documentation/styleguide.md";
(and indeed "http://jbr.me.uk/linux/esl.html";).
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
