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31 Aug
2010
31 Aug
'10
7:03 a.m.
2010/8/31 Taco Hoekwater
The Chicago manual (14ed) says that slashed/dotted dates are bad style and should be avoided and that one should use full month names instead.
Seconded. And if you have to use a short form, please follow ISO 8601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) - nobody can be sure when the 8.9.10 is. Best Martin