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·        The use of Roman numerals to indicate months is obsolete and considered archaic but acceptable in Czech.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)