Dear colleague,
now it is more clear.
Jan. = "led."
Feb. = "ún."
Mar. = "břez."
Apr. = "dub."
May = "květ."
Jun. = "červ."
Jul. = "červen."
Aug. = "srp."
Sep. = "září"
Oct. = "říj."
Nov. = "list."
Dec. = "pros."
Yes, this is possible, because in theory you can shorten every word.
It may be a little bit confusing since July is "červen." and červen
(June) is "červ.". (červ is in Czech a "worm"). But this system is
not used in the Czech Republic, because no Czech writes months in the
first place. 5. 1. is therefore only 5th January and never 1st May.
All begin with lower case letters as shown.
In
Czech language the month names are always written like that. Only
first word of a sentence is natural exception: "Červen je šestý
měsíc."
My personal preference remains to have the ISO
standard format for
dates (YYYY-MM-DD) but I have no illusion about this idea finding
acceptance from most English speakers.
It is possible for storing dates, but for
viewing we use only 2
systems:
a) 1. února 2004 (month is in genitiv, therefore ended with -a)
b) 1. 2. 2004
Arguments can be made for both abbreviated and numeric
representations
for months
I don't agree. Abbreviated months are not used.
and in the former Czechoslovakia numbers would have
avoided any
requirements to choose between different Czech and Slovak forms.
Czech and Slovak
are two different languages. It something like
English and French in Canada (if you don't care that Czech and Slovak
are very close to each other which is not the case of English and
French). Therefore the difference in month names in Czechoslovakia
was the one of many more important differences.
For you the abbreviations might be most useful in
dealing with
confused expatriates who are now living in the United States. :-)
In which sense?
<http://games.tiscali.cz/flashpoint/news.asp?r=2003&m=1>
Yes, there are
some computer lists which use this strange system.
V. Z.