[citation needed] In Swedish, the full stop is not used and the month is in nominative (without inflection): den 31 maj 2002.
In spoken Finnish in a context where it is clear people may say the short form of the month e.g. loka for lokakuu 'October', but never in formal writing as several months also can be times of the year e.g. joulukuu 'December' whereas joulu is yule or Christmastide; kesäkuu 'June' is similar to kesä 'summer'.
[citation needed] The all-numeric form for dates is in the order day–month–year, using a full stop as the separator – for example: 31.5.2002 or 31.5.02.
Informally, the trailing full stop is often left out, but in turn the colon is used instead with times of day.
However, a colon is almost exclusively used instead of a full point[citation needed] in computing environments, especially in Sámi languages.