On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:09:56 -0500, Tom Parmenter tompar@world.std.com wrote:
Our story up to now:
Both the University of Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk and White's Elements of Style state a preference for the 2 March form, but both also accept the March 2 form. Virtually every date in the Wikipedia is expressed in the March 2 form. (The mail headers for this message use the 2 March form.)
No - that is an example of something that is correctly localised to user preferences. I see the header written Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:09:56 -0500
I suggested localisation on the talk page, but it would need some sort of advanced markup such as [[date:yyyy-mm-dd]] and we'd probably still argue about the default presentation for non-logged-in users.
There's nothing
confusing about the March 2, 2003 style either.
It's not confusing, it just "feels wrong" to me.