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The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2025-01-20) is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations. Many countries have adopted it as their sole official date format, though even in these areas writers may adopt abbreviated formats that are no longer recommended.
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 .
Date and time notation around the world varies. An approach to harmonize the different notations is the ISO 8601 standard. Since the Internet is a main enabler of communication between people with different date notation backgrounds, and software is used to facilitate the communication, RFC standards and a W3C tips and discussion paper were ...
This date format is used in Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal, and Turkmenistan. According to the official rules of documenting dates by governmental authorities, [8] the long date format in Kazakh is written in the year–day–month order, e.g. 2006 5 April (Kazakh: 2006 жылғы 05 сәуір).
Wikipedia's guidelines for formatting dates (MOS:DATEFORMAT) set out the three date formats acceptable for use in Wikipedia articles, namely: Day–month–year (DMY) format—e.g., 12 January 2025 or 12 Jan 2025; Month–day–year (MDY) format—e.g., January 12, 2025 or Jan 12, 2025;
according to en:Date_format_by_country, also Denmark seems to be green. 08:26, 30 July 2012: 940 × 477 (1.6 MB) GlaMax: Changed Germany to green. The official date format of Germany according to DIN 5008 is yyyy-mm-dd, and with some restrictions DMY-derivates. Still (mostly) used are DMY derivates (see also Date format by country).
English: Date format by country. Map showing which countries primarily use which endian date format . Colours for base formats CMY, mixing using CMYK colour model .