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.) Nothing that has come up in this mailing list
discussion has not already been raised on the talk page (although the
University of Chicago press position in favor of 2 March was greatly
overstated here.)
In general, consistency in style is desirable, and most of the rules
in the Manual of Style were based on what already was being done by
the more careful (consistent, that is) contributors. Most dates are
already in the March 2 style. It will add just that little bit of
uncertainty if some are one way and some the other. There's nothing
confusing about the March 2, 2003 style either.
Tom Parmenter
Ortolan88
|From: M Carling <m(a)idiom.com>
|Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:56:56 -0800 (PST)
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|On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, The Cunctator wrote:
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|> To the American ear, "2 March 2003" sounds like something Yoda would say.
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|I won't speak for you -- only for myself. I'm an American and "2 March
|2003" is fine by me.
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|M Carling
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