>>>>> "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.