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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 little-endian format (day, month, year; 1 June 2022) is the most popular format worldwide, followed by the big-endian format (year, month, day; 2006 June 1). Dates may be written partly in Roman numerals (i.e. the month) [citation needed] or written out partly or completely in words in the local language.
Pages in category "Date and time representation by country" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In terms of time usage, both the 24-hour clock and 12-hour clock are widely used in the country. The 12-hour notation is widely used in daily life, written communication, and is used in spoken language. The 24-hour notation is used in situations where there would be widespread ambiguity.
Sync'd with w:Date format by country#Listing table as of 2019-04-09T23:12 UTC: 22:52, 7 March 2019: 940 × 477 (1.6 MB) AndrewNJ: Update some countries based on table – still needs more work: 07:31, 9 December 2018: 940 × 477 (1.6 MB) Bankster: Reverted to version as of 06:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC) 19:57, 18 November 2018: 940 × 477 (895 ...
In India, dates in astrology or religious purposes are written in a year-month-day format. [citation needed] The month-day-year (12/31/1999) in short format, is never used in India except regionally in Bodo. [citation needed] Mondays are the start of the week as per ISO 8601.
The day of the week is often appended to the date and commonly enclosed in parentheses, such as 2006年1月29日 (星期日). In speech, the date is spoken in the same format as it is written. 2006 (èrlínglíngliù) 年 (nián) 1 (yī) 月 (yuè) 29 (èrshíjiǔ) 日 (rì) 星期日 (xīngqírì)
Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country should generally use the date format most commonly used in that nation. For the United States this is (for example) July 4, 1976 ; for most other English-speaking countries it is 4 July 1976 .