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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.
Date Time Group format, used most often in operation orders. This format uses DDHHMMZMONYY, with DD being the two-digit day, HHMM being the time on a 24-hour clock, Z being the timezone code, MON being the three-letter month, and YY being the two-digit year. For example, 041200ZFEB23 is noon, UTC, on 4 Feb 2023. [13]
The YYYY-MM-DD layout is the only common format that can provide this. [15] Sorting other date representations involves some parsing of the date strings. This also works when a time in 24-hour format is included after the date, as long as all times are understood to be in the same time zone.
If a date to be formatted is provided but no style is specified, the template emits a date in "d month yyyy" format, as it appears (for example) on discussion pages. When no date is specified, then the current date is emitted with no year, either in "d month" format for formatting style DMY , or in "month d" format for formatting styles MDY ...
spork_cite_to_yyyymmdd: changes 'date = Month DD, YYYY' or 'date = DD Month YYYY' to 'date = YYYY-MM-DD' MOSNUM dates.js – a comprehensive tool maintained by User:Ohconfucius based on scripts written by User:Lightmouse which can help make all date formats (dmy and mdy) consistent, whilst removing common errors and ambiguous date formats; it ...
ISO 2014, though superseded, is the standard that originally introduced the all-numeric date notation in most-to-least-significant order [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD].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.
Listing: dd.mm.yyyy is claimed to be the (all numerical) format in use, and yet: [21] 2016-11-07 www.belgium.be portal page which does not provide date format rules itself, but otherwise has a news section showing use of date format dd/mm/yyyy. 4 august 2018. [22] 2016-03-20 www.ibm.com localization page shows d/MM/yy. 4 august 2018.
The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format. [12] [13] 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 ...