Do you put the date, or the month before, the year? How do you figure out 12/12/2012? As a designer of developer you will be making the decision on how to structure the date sequence. Magazines have policies and style guides around this. I prefer the date, followed by the month, and then the year. Logically, I cannot think of any other sequence. But we all come across various combinations. Some prefer the month followed by the date. I have seen options where the sequence starts with the year. Some prefer numbers only, some spell out the month in between (12 December 2012). Yet others add a coma (December 12, 2012). Whey leave it for interpretation? I started using a less frustrating option. Use the first two letters of the month and plug it in between. For the four months with similar first letters combinations, skip the second letter. So one may use: JA, FE, MR, AP, MY, JN, JL, AU, SE, OC, NO, DE. The combination we started with will read either 12/DE/2012 or DE/12/2012. Have you see this usage anywhere?
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