AMERICAS
Date
- Use format “July 4”
- Omit year for events happening in current year
- For other years, use “July 4, 1776” (comma between date and year)
- Abbreviate these months with dates: Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. Spell out other months.
- For a month without a date, always spell out: October 2019
Time
- Start time only for jmp.com listing page. Start and end time for event-specific listing pages and landing pages.
- Use 12-hour clock
- Periods with a.m. and p.m.
- Only use a.m. or p.m. once, unless the event begins in the morning and ends in the afternoon (for example, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. or 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.)
- For time ranges, use a hyphen or dash with space on each side: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Time Zone
- Omit references to “daylight” or “standard”
- Abbreviate time zone
- If noting two time zones, put the secondary time zone in parentheses
Examples:
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
June 23 |1:00 p.m. ET
Aug. 4 |11:00 a.m. PT (2:00 p.m. ET)
jmp.com/statspeaking:
https://www.jmp.com/en_us/events/live-webinars.html:
Event pages:
EUROPE
Date
- European / Military date format for regions outside the Americas
- Use format “4 July”
- Omit year for events happening in current year
- For other years, use “4 July 1776” (no commas)
- Abbreviate these months with dates: Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec. Spell out other months.
- For a month without a date, always spell out: 2019 October
Time
- Start time only for jmp.com listing page. Start and end time for event-specific listing pages and landing pages:
- Use 24-hour clock
- For time ranges, use a hyphen or dash with space on each side: 10:30 – 13:00
Time Zone
- Note daylight savings time (in other words, CET vs. CEST and GMT vs. BST, depending on time of year)
- Abbreviate time zones
- If noting two time zones, put the secondary time zone in parentheses
Examples:
10:30 – 12:00 CEST | 9:30 – 11:00 BST
10:30 – 12:00 CEST | 9:30 – 11:00 BST
10:30 – 12:00 CET | 9:30 – 11:00 GMT
18 June | 10:30 CET
3 Aug. | 10:30 CEST (9:30 BST)
jmp.com/statspeaking:
https://www.jmp.com/en_gb/events/live-webinars.html:
Event pages:
Note from Gail and Nina Chan @nina_chan Dec. 18, 2021. In Germany, they use a slightly different format for dates. I used her format for Mastering JMP - DE. They include the period after the day. Nina said in German you would write:
5. Feb.
5. Februar
5. Februar 2021
Spelling and Abbreviations. Note lack of intial caps for some countries:
