[XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

[Martin Schröder]

2011/6/20 Tobias Schoel <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com>:
> Understood. Haven't thought about watches. Are months written with roman
> numerals? Never seen that. (But I also don't understand, why the standard
> YYYY/MM/DD resp. YYYY-MM-DD isn't.)

The standard is YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso8601#General_principles).

As to why the month numbers are not roman nums: They don't sort easily
and I doubt many east of Jerusalem understand them that well...

Best
   Martin