On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:25:50AM +0200, Adam Ryba wrote: > > > > > > XICIIVIM months are archaic in polish. > > > > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-pl/2007-June/141423.html > > IMHO using roman numerals is plain wrong. First and foremost it is not > compliant with polish standard PN-EN 28601:2002 and international > standard ISO 8601:2004. > > Dictionary rules allow use of roman numerals, but it is not > obligatory. It just an option.
Exactly. There's absolutely no reason to use roman numbers. The most common and proper way is [day].mm.yyyy (day<10 with or without leading zero, two decimal month and four decimal year). However these dictionary rules don't meet PN either. I don't know what was the patch author intention, but thanks god he didn't use MCMLXXXVIII years... -- Tom Pala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://vfmg.sourceforge.net/ http://tccs.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en