Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers

Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:02:52 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
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On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:19:12 +0200, Tollef wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> ]] Arnt Karlsen 
> 
> > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:39:19 +0200, Wouter wrote in message 
> > <[email protected]>:
> 
> > > . as a date separator is awful.
> >  
> > riiight, don't ever learn Norwegian.  ;o)  
> 
> Norwegian doesn't use «.» as a date separator, we use - (as in,
> 2015-10-03).

..the Swedes actually do use that format, at least since the 1980-ies.
Took me a wee while too long to jog my memory that far back. ;o)

> If you're more of a traditionalist, you'd probably write
> «3. oktober 2015», where the «.» isn't a separator, it's punctuation
> to convert the 3 into an ordinal number.
> 


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