paulrobertlloyd
paulrobertlloyd

How should September be abbreviated?

  • Firefox: Sept
  • Chrome: Sept
  • Node.js: Sept
  • Deno: Sept
  • Safari: Sep 👀

This is for en-GB, en-IE, en-AU and en-NZ locales (maybe more); for other English locales, everyone agrees it should be Sep. Standards!

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starrwulfe
starrwulfe

@paulrobertlloyd I had this same conversation about month abbreviations at work a few years ago. We came up with the best compromise:

9.

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paulrobertlloyd
paulrobertlloyd

@starrwulfe Ha! (We’ll put to one side that ‘Sept’ is derived from the number 7). I guess humans are just complicated and inconsistent.

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starrwulfe
starrwulfe

@paulrobertlloyd oh yeah, I remember racking my brain in middle school around Oct (8), Nov (9) and Dec (10) and wondering how we added 2 extra months somewhere. No internet in 1991 meant a few hours in the library were spent sleuthing… and snoozing I’ll admit.

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