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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
European Date/Time Format
On Thursday, 12 July 2009 at 2.50 pm, Mike Rudolph resigned.
Six questions:
1. Do I need to insert a comma after '2009'?
2. Can I use the period, instead of the colon, in the time format, as exampled above?
3. Does the full stop, instead of the colon, look better to you in the time format?
4. Are all my uses of the commas, in sentences 2, 3, and 4, correct?
5. Does the overall sentence format (to you) look better than the US style?
6. Your preference: should there be a single space between '2.50' and 'pm'?
Thank you.
Six questions:
1. Do I need to insert a comma after '2009'?
2. Can I use the period, instead of the colon, in the time format, as exampled above?
3. Does the full stop, instead of the colon, look better to you in the time format?
4. Are all my uses of the commas, in sentences 2, 3, and 4, correct?
5. Does the overall sentence format (to you) look better than the US style?
6. Your preference: should there be a single space between '2.50' and 'pm'?
Thank you.
Top answer
1. No. 2.
- 1.
- No.
- 2.
- BrE often does.
- AmE favors colons.
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1. No.
2. BrE often does. AmE favors colons.
3. That depends what you are used to. I like the colon, because it makes it clear that it is not meant to be a decimal point, but I don't think it really makes much difference.
4. I would do this:
Can I use the period, instead of the colon, in the time format as
2. BrE often does. AmE favors colons.
3. That depends what you are used to. I like the colon, because it makes it clear that it is not meant to be a decimal point, but I don't think it really makes much difference.
4. I would do this:
Can I use the period, instead of the colon, in the time format as
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Do I need to insert a comma after '2009'?
enoonBefore and afterI personally would feel an overwhelming urge to put them in, but my "The Little, Brown Handbook" says not to. The rule they give is that commas are required to separate numbers, so July 12, 2009 needs a comma, but that no comma is needed for European style dates l
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Yep, I was wrong. It's 12 July 2009. Chicago 15 says so, too. But can I at least have the one after?
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I plan to continue to sneak one in there when nobody is looking. If you do the same I won't tell anyone. 
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