conventions for date representation around the world
Wikipedia
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List of date formats by country - Wikipedia
2 days ago - The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2026-03-10) is intended to harmonise 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.
World Population Review
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Date Format by Country 2026
1 week ago - In the United States, the date format follows the month-day-year sequence, meaning 1/10/2022 is read as January 10th, 2022. This format is consistent across all of the United States, and many of its island territories also adopt this convention.
What country uses which date format?
Yes, there are different formal date formats in different countries, but “the 10th of April” and “April 10th” are not formal date formats, they’re just different ways of writing a specific date, and would both be acceptable in any English speaking country as far as I’m aware. In the U.S. we do mm/dd/yyyy (yes it’s completely nonsensical we know). The UK generally uses dd/mm/yyyy. yyyy-mm-dd is an increasingly accepted international standard format though it’s mostly only used in datasets and that kind of thing, it’s rarely what you’d see displayed on an actual user interface. Wikipedia has a list of every country’s official date format . More on reddit.com
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April 9, 2024Remake of "Date format by country" post with simpler key and colours [1425x700]
You porobably should make lines more thick and add conventional sign that explain what this mixed lines mean.
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August 31, 2013Which date format each country uses!
I came here as a Canadian not because I wanted to see if the map was correct, but because as an adult, I wanted to know what I was supposed to be doing.
This wasn't particularly helpful.
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DD/MM/YY seem more practical to me. You just add up more precision as you need it, one behind each other.
If someone ask you in a casual discussion when exactly did one event happened, if it was in the current month you just say "on 7th", if it was on another month, you had precision with "On 7th september", and if it was a whole different year, you specify "On 7th september, 1996".
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September 13, 2009GitHub
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Listing of countries with their preferred date formats, ISO3166 code, ISO629-2 · GitHub
Listing of countries with their preferred date formats, ISO3166 code, ISO629-2 - country_date_formats.csv
Reddit
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r/EnglishLearning on Reddit: What country uses which date format?
April 9, 2024 -
Sorry if the title is a bit confusing.
When I was in school, in English class we were taught to write the date as "The 10th of April", but I've seen people write "April 10th". And just now I saw a meme where people that use the dd/mm/yyyy format were fighting people that use mm/dd/yyyy. So I was wondering: are date formats specific to different English-speaking countries? I'm not from an English-speaking country, if it's relevant.
Thanks.
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When saying/writing a date in full it doesn’t matter as much. I’m British and I would say “10th of April”, it sounds a little American to me to say “April 10th” but it’s not ambiguous at all so it’s not going to confuse anybody to say either one. If I’m writing the date in a short form that is different. ‘10/4/2024’ would be the 10th of April for me but the 4th of October for an American. There’s a handy map on this Wikipedia page that shows which countries use which format. It’s more than just the English speaking world since those short form dates can be understood by anyone of any language if they know which format is being used.
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Yes, there are different formal date formats in different countries, but “the 10th of April” and “April 10th” are not formal date formats, they’re just different ways of writing a specific date, and would both be acceptable in any English speaking country as far as I’m aware. In the U.S. we do mm/dd/yyyy (yes it’s completely nonsensical we know). The UK generally uses dd/mm/yyyy. yyyy-mm-dd is an increasingly accepted international standard format though it’s mostly only used in datasets and that kind of thing, it’s rarely what you’d see displayed on an actual user interface. Wikipedia has a list of every country’s official date format .
ISO
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Date Format in the United States | ISO
The United States is one of the few countries that use “mm-dd-yyyy” as their date format–which is very very unique! The day is written first and the year last in most countries (dd-mm-yyyy) and some nations, such as Iran, Korea, and China, write the year first and the day last (yyyy-mm-dd).
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Oracle
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Date Formats (International Language Environments Guide)
Table 1-2 shows some of the date formats used around the world. Notice that even within a country, there can be variations.
Grokipedia
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List of date formats by country — Grokipedia
January 14, 2026 - In Europe, the predominant format ... of YYYY-MM-DD for clarity in international contexts.[11][12] North America largely adheres to the middle-endian MM/DD/YYYY format, particularly in the United States and Canada, where it serves ...
Kylian
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English Date Formats: Complete Global Guide
June 9, 2025 - The Canadian government strictly encourages ISO 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) owing to diverse population, while practical usage varies by region and context. ... Both countries maintain strong alignment with British conventions while incorporating ...
W3C
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Date formats
How do I prepare my web pages to display varying international date formats? Visitors to a web site from varying locales may be confused by date formats. The format MM/DD/YY is unique to the United States (but sometimes used in Canada, too, which can obviously create some confusion there).
Wikimedia Commons
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POEditor
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The basics of date and time localization - POEditor Blog
October 21, 2024 - You’ll encounter this format in the United States and a few other countries like Canada and the Philippines. Here, “02/01/2025” would be February 1, 2025. YYYY/MM/DD. This format is standardized by ISO 8601 and used in places like China, Japan, Korea, and for technical purposes worldwide (e.g., databases, APIs). An example would be “2025/02/01.” · Yes, even the date separators require localization.
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Fandom
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Date format by country | Calendar Wiki | Fandom
January 9, 2026 - Writers have traditionally written ... to day–month formats such as "4 March 2026" (04/03/26, 04/03/2026, 04-03-2026 or 04.03.2026) and month–day formats such as "March 4, 2026" (03/04/26 or 03/04/2026)....
W3C
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Use international date format (ISO) - Quality Web Tips
In most cases, writing the date in full letters would be better than the example above. Apr. 3rd, 2002, for example will be easy to understand for any English-speaking audience. But this system does not cross borders much better than its numerical counterparts: does the french 12 Août 2042 actually mean something for a Japanese person? Or when you notice a 昭和44年03月16日 in Japanese which is 16 March 1969 in English. The international format defined by ISO (ISO 8601) tries to address all these problems by defining a numerical date system as follows: YYYY-MM-DD where
Wikimedia Commons
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Gregory Schmidt
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Date Display - variations by country & language — Gregory Schmidt
September 2, 2019 - The variation of element sequence even occurs within the same country. For instance, the US Military follows DD-MM-YY notation whereas the rest of the country uses MM-DD-YY. Other countries even allow multiple sequences.
Wikipedia
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Date and time representation by country - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - 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 year) or written out partly or completely in words in the local language.