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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.
ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data.It is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, with updates in 1991, 2000, 2004, and 2019, and an amendment in 2022. [1]
The expanded form of the date (e.g., 31. Dezember 1991 ) continues to use the little-endian order and the ordinal-number dot for the day of the month. Week numbers according to ISO 8601 and the convention of starting the week on Monday were introduced in the mid 1970s ( DIN 1355 ).
The military date notation is similar to the date notation in British English but is read cardinally (e.g. "Nineteen July") rather than ordinally (e.g. "The nineteenth of July"). [citation needed] Weeks are generally referred to by the date of some day within that week (e.g., "the week of May 25"), rather than by a week number. Many holidays ...
Programmers like yyyy-mm-dd because it's easy to work with and they get the logic behind it. Americans can at least tolerate it because the month comes before the day as in mm/dd/yyyy. For the rest of the world, it's a mind bending contortion just as Americans can't mentally handle dd/mm/yyyy. I get it and we should be sensitive to the whole world.
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 ...
Dutch TV listings magazines invariably use 24-hour notation. In written language, time is expressed in the 24-hour notation, with or without leading zero, using a full stop or colon as a separator, sometimes followed by the word uur (hour) or its abbreviation u. – for example, 22.51 uur, 9.12 u., or 09:12.
Date and time notation in Canada combines conventions from the United Kingdom, conventions from the United States, and conventions from France, often creating confusion. [1] The Government of Canada specifies the ISO 8601 format for all-numeric dates ( YYYY - MM - DD ; for example, 2025-01-31). [ 2 ]