>>>>> "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.
