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National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
The year-month-day order, such as the ISO 8601 "YYYY-MM-DD" notation is popular in computer applications because it reduces the amount of code needed to resolve and compute dates. It is also commonly used in software cases where there are many separately dated items, such as documents or media, because sorting alphanumerically will ...
ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times specifies YYYY-MM-DD (the separators are optional, but only hyphens are allowed to be used), where all values are fixed length numeric, but also allows YYYY-DDD, where DDD is the ordinal number of the day within the year, e.g. 2001 ...
ISO 2014, though superseded, is the standard that originally introduced the all-numeric date notation in most-to-least-significant order [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]. The ISO week numbering system was introduced in ISO 2015, and the identification of days by ordinal dates was originally defined in ISO 2711.
The YYYY-MM-DD format is the only officially recommended method of writing a numeric date in Canada. [2] The presence of the DD/MM/YY (most of the world) and MM/DD/YY (American) formats often results in misinterpretation. Using these systems, the date 7 January 2016 could be written as either 07/01/16 or 01/07/16, which readers can also ...
the format expected in the citation style being used (but all-numeric date formats other than yyyy-mm-dd must still be avoided). For example, publication dates within a single article might be in one, but only one, of these formats (among others):
In most post-Soviet states DD.MM.YYYY format is used with dots as separators and with leading zeros.. Some, such as Lithuania, have adopted the ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD format; previously a mixed standard with ISO 8601 order but dots as separators was in use.
Day MonthName Year as in 15 January 2001 (symbolized as dD MMMM YYYY) Year MonthName Day as in 2001 January 15 (symbolized as YYYY MMMM DD) Year-MonthNumber-Day as in 2001-01-15 (symbolized as YYYY-MM-DD) Though not identified as such on the preferences page, this is the same way dates are displayed in ISO 8601 format.