Addresses, Dates and Times
Guidelines for SAIT staff on writing addresses, dates, and times.
Street and avenue are abbreviated St. and Ave. when used in a full address.
Names of Calgary quadrants should appear without periods: NW, SW, NE and SE.
We do not use ‘th’ or ‘nd’ after the street number.
Use numerals for all street names*
123 4 Ave. SE
1301 16 Ave. NW
1234 56 St. SW
SAIT’s address is: 1301 16 Ave. NW
*Some variation is permitted for mass mailing using databases such as Banner.
Show the academic year as 2015/16 (no space before or after the forward slash).
Never use “th,” “rd” or “st” when writing a specific date.
Jan. 23
Jan. 23rd
Abbreviate Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. when used with a specific day.
Monday, Aug. 3. Monday, August 3
Do not abbreviate March, April, May, June or July.
Months should be spelled out when used with a year or when they stand alone with no specific date.
August 2015 Molly is going on vacation in January. Sandy is going on vacation Jan. 23 and will return in May.
Dates should be written with the day of the week, unless the date is more than three months away.
Monday, Aug. 4
The year should be used only if omitting it could cause confusion.
SAIT celebrated its 100th birthday on Oct. 16, 2016.
Use am and pm (no periods, lowercase after a space) to designate day or night. Do not use the 24-hour clock.
4:30 pm 16:30
When referring to times at the top of the hour, do not include the minutes, but include the minutes when referring to times that are not at the top of the hour.
8 am 8:45 am 8:00 am
Use noon or midnight, not 12 pm or 12 am.
For a range of dates or times, use an en dash on posters or similar materials. To make an en dash, type two hyphens followed by a space.
Oct. 15 – 18 2 – 5 pmFor other materials, such as stories, press releases or similar, you can use ‘to’ at your discretion.
9 to 10 am Oct. 12 to 14
When there is both a date and a time range, use a comma in between.
Aug. 11, 3 – 5 pm
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.