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Do we have a preferred format for dates #169

Closed oostenbrink closed 5 years ago

oostenbrink commented 5 years ago

In the instructions for editors, we write: "Have the author enable the LiveCoMS footer by including the ‘pubversion’ class option in the document preamble, fill in the ‘\datereceived’ and ‘\dateaccepted’ fields, and provide a recompiled PDF for posting to the editor handling the submission and a managing editor."

Do we have a preferred format for how to write the date? dd-mm-yyyy dd Month yyyy Month dd yyyy yyyymmdd

Can we include this in a comment in the template?

dwsideriusNIST commented 5 years ago

I'm in favor of an international convention; choose between short form and long forms:

ISO 8601: YYYY-MM-DD (also best for computer science applications, but is utilitarian)

Longform (no standard AFAIK): D mmmmm YYYY (better aesthetically)

davidlmobley commented 5 years ago

Sounds good to me! Anyone want to volunteer to modify the template?

(I am OK with either short or long forms.)

dwsideriusNIST commented 5 years ago

I can modify the template, but you'll end up with my preference (longform, international format)

oostenbrink commented 5 years ago

I'd be happy with your suggested long form.

dmzuckerman commented 5 years ago

No objection from me.

davidlmobley commented 5 years ago

Fine by me too.

dwsideriusNIST commented 5 years ago

I submitted a PR in the article_templates repo to address this. I'll look in the author guidelines and determine if a PR is needed there as well.

mrshirts commented 5 years ago

Addressed with https://github.com/livecomsjournal/article_templates/pull/65