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3.6. Dates
The Press prefers that dates
involving two or three units of time be written without punctuation: "14 September
1979," "19 May," and "August 1982." Days of the month are written as cardinal
numbers: "20 December," thus dropping the "th" from the number. The century is
not repeated when giving date ranges: "1970-79," except when giving birth and
death dates: "1905-1980." The apostrophe is not used when indicating plurals in
cases such as "the 1960s."
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