When displaying a list of artifacts in Spira or KronoDesk using the shorter date format dd-MMM-yyyy you will get the following in Czech and Slovak languages:

26-VII-2016 instead of 26-Jul-2016 (for July).

According to this article in Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8730593/date-format-giving-roman-numeral-for-month-name

This is a design feature in Windows and Microsoft .NET (that Spira and KronoDesk are using) that due to a lack of standardized month abbreviations in those languages, Microsoft chose to use Roman numerals instead of textual abbeviations, which is a form that has been previously accepted in both countries in the past.

From the Microsoft Czech Style Guide (which is attached to this article for reference):

Country/region

Czech Republic

Calendar/Era

Gregorian

First Day of the Week

Monday

First Week of the Year

Week of January 1

Separator

period + non-breaking space

Default Short Date Format

 

d. M. yyyy

Example

17. 3. 2011

Default Long Date Format

d. MMMM yyyy (MMMM genitive)

Example

17. března 2011

Additional Short Date Format 1

 

d. R. yyyy (please see below for notes on the use of Roman numerals)

Example

17. III. 2011

Additional Short Date Format 2

 

N/A

Additional Long Date Format 1

 

d. MMMM yyyy (MMMM nominative; see notes for details)

Example

17. březen 2011

Additional Long Date Format 2

 

N/A

Leading Zero in Day Field for Short Date Format

 

No

Leading Zero in Month Field for Short Date Format

 

 

No

No. of digits for year for Short Date Format

 

4

Leading Zero in Day Field for Long Date Format

 

No

Leading Zero in Month Field for Long Date

 

No

 

 

Country/region

Czech Republic

Format

 

Number of digits for year for Long Date Format

 

4

Date Format for Correspondence

 

Long: d. MMMM yyyy  (MMMM genitive)

Example

17. března 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes

·        In Czech, dates are written in the day-month-year format. The month name is in genitive if functioning as an adverbial (i.e., answering the question "when?", "on

which day?" - default long format). When the date performs the nominal function (name of a day, answering the question "which day?"), nominative is used, as indicated under Additional Long Format 1. Such use is however very rare and normally never applies to software.

·        The period after a number is always followed by a non-breaking space. (Required, not optional.) The year always consists of four digits. No leading zeros are used.

·        Day and month names do not take an initial capital in Czech.

·        If a date format includes a day name (or abbreviation thereof), there is a comma between the day name and the number: čtvrtek, 17. března 2011

·        The use of Roman numerals to indicate months is obsolete and considered archaic but acceptable in Czech. It should be used ONLY as a third alternative

to the Long and Short formats, where the US software would offer abbreviated month names (such as Jan, Oct, etc.), and ONLY if there is no other possibility

to use one of the other two formats. Abbreviating month names in Czech is not

acceptable.

 

 

 

 

Abbreviations in Format Codes

d is for day, number of d's indicates the format (d = digits without leading zero, dd = digits with leading zero, ddd = the abbreviated day name, dddd = full day name)

M is for month, number of M's gives number of digits. (M = digits without leading zero, MM = digits with leading zero, MMM = the abbreviated name, MMMM = full name)

R is for month expressed as uppercase Roman numeral (for example X = October)

 

y is for year, number of y's gives number of digits (yy = two digits, yyyy = four digits)