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  2. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    There is no 'official' date format used but they are used interchangeably based on the situation. Maldives: Yes: Yes: No: Short format: yy/mm/dd (Day first, month next and year last in right-to-left writing direction) Long format: dd mmmm yyyy (Year first, full month name and day last in right-to-left writing direction) Mali: No: Yes: No Malta ...

  3. Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia

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    The calendar that is used for Date format. The order in which the year, month, and day are represented. (Year-month-day, day-month-year, and month-day-year are the common combinations.) How weeks are identified (see seven-day week) Whether written months are identified by name, by number (1–12), or by Roman numeral (I-XII).

  4. Date and time notation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Standard format: 1- or 2-digit day, the spelled-out month, and 4-digit year (e.g. 4 February 2023) Civilian format: spelled out month, 1-or 2-digit day, a comma, and the 4-digit year (e.g. February 4, 2023). [12] Date Time Group format, used most often in operation orders. This format uses DDHHMMZMONYY, with DD being the two-digit day, HHMM ...

  5. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    This date format originates from the custom of writing the date as "the Nth day of [month] in the year of our Lord [year]" in Western religious and legal documents. The format has shortened over time but the order of the elements has remained constant. The following examples use the date of 9 November 2006.

  6. Date and time notation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Dates are traditionally and most commonly written in daymonthyear (DMY) order: [1] [2] 31 December 1999; 31/12/99; Formal style manuals discourage writing the day of the month as an ordinal number (for example "31st December"), except with an incomplete reference, such as "They set off on 12 August 1960 and arrived on the 18th".

  7. Date and time notation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Documents with an international audience, including the Canadian passport, use the day-month-year format. [7] The date is sometimes written out in words, especially in formal documents such as contracts and invitations, following spoken forms: [2] "… on this the seventh day of January, two thousand and sixteen …"

  8. Date and time notation in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Besides that, in Hungary the big-endian year-month-day order has been traditionally used. In 1995, also in Germany, the traditional notation was replaced in the DIN 5008 standard, which defines common typographic conventions, with the ISO 8601 notation (e.g., "1991-12-31"), and is becoming the prescribed date format in Germany since 1996-05-01.

  9. Wikipedia : Overview of date formatting guidelines

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    Wikipedia's guidelines for formatting dates (MOS:DATEFORMAT) set out the three date formats acceptable for use in Wikipedia articles, namely: Daymonthyear (DMY) format—e.g., 12 January 2025 or 12 Jan 2025; Monthdayyear (MDY) format—e.g., January 12, 2025 or Jan 12, 2025; Yearmonthday (YMD) format—e.g., 2025-01-12 (also ...