CMOS 18: day-month-year date formatting

marygauxlightly
Zotero v. 9.0.6
CMOS 18

The day-month-year format is permissible in CMOS (CMOS 18, §§ 6.41, 9.37). Is there a way to set a preference for this order in Zotero?

Thanks.

–M
  • adamsmith
    If you set the style to en-GB (English, United Kingdom) you'll get day-month-year dates, but you'll also get other British English features like single quotes and commas outside of quotation marks.

    Just switching the date formats isn't possible, no, and we wouldn't add a style variant for this (it's not even mentioned as an option in the section on citations, so unclear to what degree it applies), but you can modify the style yourself if it's important.
  • marygauxlightly
    @adamsmith, I (an American) find the day-month-year format, like the metric system, superior to the standards to which the US cleaves despite the conventions adopted by the rest of the world. It sounds as though setting the style to en-GB, however, will introduce new problems, and I wholly lack the technical knowledge to modify the style myself. Alas! I will have to settle for the day and the year digits abutting across a lonely comma.

    Thanks very much for taking the time to respond.

    —M
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