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This page gives an overview of date formats by country.
The legal and cultural expectations for date and time representation vary between countries, and it is important to be aware of the forms of all-numeric calendar dates used in a particular country to know what date is intended.
Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "5 March 2024" (05/03/24, 05/03/2024, 05-03-2024 or 05.03.2024) and month–day formats such as "March 5, 2024" (03/05/24 or 03/05/2024). This can result in dates that are impossible to understand correctly without knowing the context. For instance, depending on the order style, the abbreviated date "01/11/06" can be interpreted as "1 November 2006" for DMY, "January 11, 2006" for MDY, and "2001 November 6" for YMD.
The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD ({{#time:Y-m-d) 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.
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- All examples use example date 2021-03-31 / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / March 31, 2021 – except where a single-digit day is illustrated.
Basic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems:
- D – day
- M – month
- Y – year
Specific formats for the basic components:
- yy – year of century, e.g. 21
- yyyy – full year, e.g. 2021
- m – month number, e.g. 3
- mm – two-digit month, e.g. 03
- mmm – abbreviation of month name, e.g. Mar
- mmmm – month name spelled out in full, e.g. March
- d – day of the month, e.g. 2
- dd – two-digit day of the month, e.g. 02
- ddd – abbreviation for day of the week, e.g. Fri or Fr
- dddd – day of the week spelled out in full, e.g. Friday
Separators of the components:
/
– oblique stroke (slash).
– full stop, dot or point (period)-
– hyphen (dash)
Country | All-numeric date format | Details | ISO 8601 | |||
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YMD | DMY | MDY | Short format | Long format | ||
Afghanistan | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | d/m/yyyy (RTL) | yyyy mmmm d (RTL) | |
Åland | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd | d mmmm yyyy | |
Albania | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy Some YMD |
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Algeria | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
American Samoa | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | mm/dd/yy | ||
Andorra | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Angola | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Anguilla | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Antigua and Barbuda | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Argentina | ❎ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyymmdd, dd/mm/yy dd/mm/yyyy |
d de mmmm de yyyy dddd d de mmmm de yyyy – full format |
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Armenia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Aruba | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Australia | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd is recommended for government publications | mmmm d, yyyy is sometimes used, usually informally in the mastheads of magazines and newspapers, and in advertisements, video games, news, and TV shows, especially those emanating from the US. | AS ISO 8601-2007 |
Austria | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | d.m.yyyy or d.m.yy using dots (which denote ordinal numbering) |
d. mmmm yyyy or d. mmmm yy sometimes |
ÖNORM ISO 8601 |
Azerbaijan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Bahamas | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bahrain | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bangladesh | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | not officially standardised. Bengali calendar dates are also used: দদ-মম-বববব | ||
Barbados | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | BNS 50:2000 | ||
Belarus | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Belgium | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy |
NBN Z 01-002 | |
Belize | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Benin | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bermuda | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bhutan | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | |||
Bolivia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bonaire | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d. m. yyyy. | d. mmmm yyyy. | |
Botswana | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd for Setswana; dd/mm/yyyy for English |
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Brazil | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
British Indian Ocean Territory | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
British Virgin Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Brunei | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Bulgaria | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Burkina Faso | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Burundi | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Cambodia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yy | d mmmm yyyy | |
Cameroon | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy or d/m/yyyy for Aghem, Bafia, Basaa, Duala, English, Ewondo, French, Fula, Kako, Kwasio, Mundang, Ngiemboon and Yangben; yyyy-mm-dd for Meta’ and Ngomba |
d mmmm yyyy | |
Canada | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | yyyy-mm-dd is the only format that the Government of Canada and Standards Council of Canada officially recommend for all-numeric dates. However, usage differs with context. | mmmm-dd-yyyy is used by many English-language publications and media company products as well as the majority of government documents written in English. dd-mmmm-yyyy is used for French and English speakers. This form is used in formal letters, academic papers, military, many media companies and some government documents, particularly in French-language ones. |
CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 (R2007) |
Cape Verde | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Cayman Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | DMY and MDY are used interchangeably. Official forms generally tend towards DMY | Month is often spelled out to avoid confusion. | |
Central African Republic | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Chad | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Chile | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | d de mmmm del yyyy | |
China | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd, yyyy年mm月dd日 and yy年m月d日 are national standards, yyyy/mm/dd, yy/m/d or yyyy.mm.dd and yy.m.d used casually by many people |
yyyy-d-mmm in Uyghur languages in Xinjiang usually: 2017-يىل 18-ئاۋغۇست or 2017-8-18 | GB/T 7408-2005 |
Christmas Island | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Colombia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Comoros | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Congo (East and West) |
❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Cook Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Costa Rica | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Croatia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d. m. yyyy. | d. mmmm yyyy. | |
Cuba | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Curaçao | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Cyprus | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
Czech Republic | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | d. m. yyyy | d. mmmm yyyy | ČSN ISO 8601 |
Denmark | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd is also accepted, though this format is not commonly used; dd.mm.yyyy or dd.mm.yy is the traditional Danish date format |
d. mmmm yyyy dddd(,) den d. mmmm yyyy d/m-yy or d/m yyyy are also acceptable in handwriting |
DS/ISO 8601:2005 |
Djibouti | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy (LTR) in Afar, French and Somali, d/m/yy is a common alternative. Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d format (RTL) in Arabic language. |
d mmmm yyyy or mmmm dd, yyyy (LTR) in Afar, French and Somali and yyyy ،mmmm d (RTL) in Arabic |
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Dominica | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Dominican Republic | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
East Timor | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Ecuador | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Egypt | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
El Salvador | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Equatorial Guinea | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | d mmmm yyyy for French and Spanish | |
Eritrea | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | dd/mm/yyyy for Afar, Bilen, English, Saho, Tigre and Tigrinya. Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d (RTL) format in Arabic language. |
d mmmm yyyy (LTR) for Bilen, English, Tigre and Tigrinya, yyyy ،mmmm d (RTL) for Arabic and mmmm dd, yyyy (LTR) for Afar and Saho |
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Estonia | ❎ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy, d.m.yyyy, d.m.yy; yyyy-mm-dd is, in more formal, international contexts, the preferred allowed format |
d. mmmm yyyy (month name may be substituted by Roman numerals) |
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Eswatini | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | YMD (in Swati), DMY (in English) |
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Ethiopia | ❌ | ✅ | ❎ | dd/mm/yyyy; dd/mm/yyyy |
dd mmmm yyyy for Amharic, Tigrinya and Wolaytta; mmmm dd, yyyy for Afar, Oromo and Somali |
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Falkland Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Faroe Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Federated States of Micronesia | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |||
Finland | ❌ | ✅ | ❎ | d.m.yyyy in Finnish | d. mmmm yyyy mmmm d. p. yyyy in Inari Sami mmmm d. b. yyyy in Northern Sami mmmm d. p. yyyy in Skolt Sami d mmmm yyyy in Swedish |
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Fiji | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
France | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy for Alsatian, Catalan, Corsican, French and Occitan; yyyy-mm-dd for Breton, Basque and Interlingua |
NF Z69-200 | |
French Guiana | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
French Polynesia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Gabon | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Gambia]] | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Georgia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy dd-mm-yy possible for Georgian calendar dates, with century digits omitted |
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Germany | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy traditionally; yyyy-mm-dd has become the official standard date format in 1996 dd.mm.yyyy and d.m.yy are allowed again in areas where there is no risk of ambiguity, since 2006 |
d. mmmm yyyy is accepted in handwriting by DIN 5008 | DIN ISO 8601:2006-09, used in DIN 5008:2011-04 |
Ghana | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | yyyy/mm/dd for Akan; dd/mm/yyyy; m/d/yyyy for Ewe |
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Gibraltar | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Greece | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ELOT EN 28601 | ||
Greenland | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | d. mmmm yyyy in Danish; mmmm d.-at, yyyy in Greenlandic |
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Grenada | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Guadeloupe | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Guam | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |||
Guatemala | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | d de mmmm de yyyy or dddd, d de mmmm de yyyy |
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Guernsey | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Guinea | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | dd/mm/yyyy (LTR) in French and Fulah. Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in yyyy/mm/dd (RTL) format in N'ko |
d mmmm yyyy (LTR) for French and Fulah and yyyy, dd mmmm (RTL) for N'ko |
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Guinea-Bissau | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Guyana | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Haiti | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Hong Kong | ✅ | ✅ | ⭕️ | yyyy年mm月dd日 or yy年m月d日 for Chinese; dd/mm/yyyy or d/m/yy in English |
d mmmm yyyy and d mmmm, yyyy used casually by many people. dd-mmmm-yyyy and mmmm-dd-yyyy are used interchangeably, except the latter was more frequently used in media publications and commercial purpose |
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Honduras | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Hungary | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy. mm. dd. or yyyy. mm. d. |
yyyy. mmm(m) (d)d. The name of the month can be written out in full or abbreviated, or it can be indicated by Roman numerals |
MSZ ISO 8601:2003 |
Iceland | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | IST EN 28601:1992 | |
India | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | dd-mm-yyyy is predominant, almost all government documents need to be filled up this way. yyyy-mm-dd is officially recommended by the BIS, although not yet a common practice. mm/dd/yyyy in Bodo |
mmmm dd, yyyy in the majority of English-language newspapers and media publications | IS 7900:2001 |
Indonesia | ❌ | ✅ | ⭕️ | On English-written materials, Indonesians tend to use the MDY but was more widely used in non-governmental contexts. English-language governmental and academic documents use DMY. |
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Iran, Islamic Republic of | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy/mm/dd in Persian Calendar system, yy/m/d is a common alternative. Gregorian dates follow the same rules in Persian literature but tend to be written in the dd/mm/yyyy format in official English documents. |
yyyy mmmm d (RTL) | |
Iraq | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
Ireland | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd-mm-yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy is also in common use |
IS/EN 28601:1993 | |
Isle of Man | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Israel | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy using dots is the common format. dd/mm/yyyy is also in common use. |
The Jewish calendar is in limited use, mainly for Jewish holidays, and follows the DMY format. | |
Italy | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | UNI EN 28601 | |
Ivory Coast | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Jamaica | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Jan Mayen | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Japan | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy年mm月dd日 | sometimes Japanese era year is used, e.g. 平成18年12月30日. | JIS X 0301:2002 |
Jersey | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Jordan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Kazakhstan | ❎ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy.dd.mm in Kazakh; dd.mm.(yy)yy in Russian |
yyyy ж. d mmmm in Kazakh; d mmmm yyyy in Russian; yyyy ж. dd mmmm is the full format in Kazakh |
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Kenya | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | yy/mm/dd, dd/mm/yyyy; m/d/yyyy for Swahili |
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Kiribati | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
North Korea | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | |||
South Korea | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd is the national standard and yyyy년 mm월 dd일 or yy년 m월 d일 as well, yyyy.mm.dd. and yy.m.d etc. used casually by many people |
KS X ISO 8601 | |
Kosovo | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Kuwait | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Kyrgyzstan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Laos | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Latvia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy. | yyyy. gada d. mmmm | |
Lebanon | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Lesotho | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd for Sesotho; dd/mm/yyyy for English |
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Liberia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Libya | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Liechtenstein | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Lithuania | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd; yyyy <m.> <month in genitive> d <d.> |
LST ISO 8601:2006 | |
Luxembourg | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ITM-EN 28601 | |
Macau | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | YMD(年月日)same as Hong Kong; DMY in Portuguese and English |
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Madagascar | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Malawi | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Malaysia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd-mm-yyyy | ||
Maldives | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yy/mm/dd (RTL) | dd mmmm yyyy (RTL) | |
Mali | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Malta | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Marshall Islands | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |||
Martinique | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mauritania | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mauritius | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mayotte | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mexico | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | NOM-008-SCFI-2002 | ||
Moldova | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Monaco | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mongolia | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd is the national standard format yyyy/mm/dd or yyyy/mm/d is used by many people casually, or yyyy.(m)m.(d)d |
yyyy оны (m)m сарын (d)d Traditional Mongolian languages in Mongolia usually give date examples in the form 2017ᠣᠨ ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠤᠳᠤᠭᠠᠷ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ 2ᠡᠳᠦᠷ but this form is never used when writing in Mongolian Cyrillic | MNS-ISO 8601 |
Montenegro | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d.m.yyyy. and dd.mm.yyyy. are accepted. A period is used as a separator and after the year because the Montenegrin language writes these numbers as ordinal numbers that are written as the corresponding cardinal number, with a period at the end. |
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Montserrat | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Morocco | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Mozambique | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Myanmar | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | YMD for Burmese calendar. DMY for Gregorian calendar. |
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Nagorno-Karabakh Republic | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Namibia | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | DMY | ||
Nauru | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Nepal | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | DMY, YMD in official Nepali Vikram Samvat calendar (also see Nepal Sambat which is also in use); MDY in Gregorian dates are used for newspapers in English |
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Netherlands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd-mm-yyyy | NEN ISO 8601, NEN EN 28601, NEN 2772 | |
New Caledonia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
New Zealand | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Nicaragua | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Niger | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Nigeria | ❌ | ✅ | ❎ | dd/mm/yyyy and d/m/yy |
d mmmm yyyy for English, Hausa and Igbo; mmmm dd, yyyy for Edo, Fulani, Ibibio, Kanuri and Yoruba |
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Niue | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
Norfolk Island | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
North Macedonia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Northern Mariana Islands | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |||
Norway | ✅ | ✅ | ⭕️ | dd.mm.yyyy; d.m.yy leading zeroes and century digits may be omitted; ddmmyy (six figures, no century digits, no delimiters) allowed in tables. yyyy-mm-dd can be used for "technical" purposes. d/m-y (fraction form) is incorrect, but is common and considered passable in handwriting |
mmmm d. b. yyyy in Lule Sami and Southern Sami dates | NS-ISO 8601 |
Oman | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Pakistan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Palestine | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
Palau | ❌ | ✅ | ⭕️ | (m)m/(d)d/(yy)yy in English; (yy)yy/m(m)/(d)d in Japanese |
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Panama | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | mm/dd/yyyy | d de mmmm de yyyy | |
Papua New Guinea | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Paraguay | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Peru | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Philippines | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | mm/dd/yyyy | mmmm d, yyyy in English DMY dates are also used occasionally, primarily by, but not limited to, government institutions such as on the data page of passports, and immigration and customs forms. ika-d ng mmmm(,) yyyy in Filipino (month and year can be shortened) mmmm d, yyyy in civil use but still pronounced as above |
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Pitcairn Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Poland | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy traditionally, often with dots as separators, yyyy-mm-dd officially |
d <month in genitive> yyyy; d <month in Roman numerals> yyyy less frequently |
PN-90/N-01204 |
Portugal | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy; dd-mm-yyyy; yyyy-mm-dd in some newer documents |
NP EN 28601 | |
Puerto Rico | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | mmmm d, yyyy in English; d de mmmm de yyyy in Spanish |
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Qatar | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Réunion | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Romania | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | (d)d-mmm-yyyy with 3 letters of month name with the notable exception of Nov for November, which would otherwise be noiembrie; (d)d-XII-yyyy with month number as a Roman numeral with lines above AND below, slowly deprecating |
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Russian Federation | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd dd.mm.yyyy dd.mm.(yy)yy |
d <month in genitive> yyyy г. (= g., short for goda, i.e. year in genitive); Bashkir, Ossetian, Sakha and Tatar languages usually give dates in the form 22 май 2017 й, 22 майы, 2017 аз, ыам ыйын 22 күнэ 2017 с., 22 май 2017 ел |
GOST R 7.0.64-2018 GOST R 7.0.97-2016 |
Rwanda | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy/mm/dd; dd/mm/yyyy |
yyyy mmmm dd for Kinyarwanda; d mmmm yyyy for English and French |
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Saba | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Barthélemy | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Kitts and Nevis | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Lucia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Martin | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Samoa | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
San Marino | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
São Tomé and Príncipe | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Saudi Arabia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy in Islamic and Gregorian calendar systems | ||
Senegal | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Serbia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d.m.yyyy. | d. mmmm yyyy. | |
Seychelles | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Sierra Leone | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Singapore | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | yyyy年m月d日 in Chinese; DMY in English, Malay and Tamil |
MDY also sometimes used, especially in media publications, commercial usage, and some governmental websites | |
Sint Eustatius | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Sint Maarten | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Slovakia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d. m. yyyy | ||
Slovenia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | d. m. yyyy | d. mmmm yyyy | |
Solomon Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Somalia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy | ||
South Africa | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | yyyy/mm/dd; yyyy-mm-dd |
dd mmmm yyyy in English; dd mmmm yyyy in Afrikaans; yyyy mmmm d in Xhosa MDY in Zulu |
SANS 8601:2009 |
Spain | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy for Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and Valencian; yyyy/mm/dd for Basque |
UNE EN 28601 | |
Sri Lanka | ✅ | ✅ | ⭕️ | yyyy-mm-dd for Sinhala; d-m-yyyy for Tamil |
MDY in English-language media and commercial publications, but DMY (both long and short) are used in governmental and other English documents of official contexts. |
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Sudan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
South Sudan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Suriname | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Svalbard | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Sweden | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | yyyy-mm-dd; dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food 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. |
d mmmm yyyy or den d mmmm yyyy |
SS-ISO 8601 |
Switzerland | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | d. mmmm yyyy for French, German, Italian and Romansh | SN ISO 8601:2005-08 |
Syria | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Taiwan | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | yyyy/(m)m/(d)d yyyy-mm-dd |
yyyy年m月d日, in most context year is represented using ROC era system: 民國95年12月30日 |
CNS 7648 |
Tajikistan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | ||
Tanzania | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Thailand | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy with Buddhist Era years in governmental sector | TIS 1111:2535 in 1992 | |
Togo | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | dd/mm/yyyy in French; mm/dd/(yy)yy in Ewe |
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Tokelau | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Tonga | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Trinidad and Tobago | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Tunisia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Turkey | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy | d mmmm yyyy; d mmmm yyyy dddd – full format |
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Turkmenistan | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.(yy)yy ý. | yyyy-nji ýylyň d-nji mmmm | |
Turks and Caicos Islands | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Tuvalu | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Uganda | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Ukraine | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.(yy)yy; dd/mm/yyyy in some cases |
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United Arab Emirates | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
United Kingdom | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd/mm/yyyy; yyyy-mm-dd is used increasingly especially in applications associated with computers, avoiding the ambiguity of the numerical versions of the DMY/MDY formats. |
d mmmm yyyy recommended by most style guides, following the DMY convention in articles. dddd mmmm d, yyyy used by some newspapers for both the banner and articles, while others stick to DMY for both. |
BS ISO 8601:2004 |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | Same as the US | ||
United States of America | ✅ | ⭕️ | ✅ | m/d/yy or m/d/yyyy are civilian vernacular |
d mmm(m) yyyy (but no short DMY formats) and yyyy-mm-dd (but rarely any other short YMD formats and rarely any long YMD formats), are sometimes prescribed or used—particularly in military, academic, scientific, computing, industrial, or governmental contexts. |
ANSI INCITS 30-1997 (R2008) and NIST FIPS PUB 4-2 |
United States Virgin Islands | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | |||
Uruguay | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Uzbekistan | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | dd.mm.yyyy Cyrillic; dd/mm yyyy Latin |
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Vanuatu | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Venezuela | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Vietnam | ✅ | ✅ | ❎ | (d)d/(m)m/yyyy or (d)d-(m)m-yyyy; (d)d.(m)m.yyyy is also in use; yyyy-mm-dd in English |
ngày (d)d tháng (m)m năm yyyy (leading zeros officially required) or ngày (d)d tháng mmmm năm yyyy; mmmm d, yyyy in English; in historical documents, era names: năm thứ _ tháng [m]m or in textform ngày(mồng) [d]d or in textform. |
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Wallis and Futuna | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Yemen | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Zambia | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | |||
Zimbabwe | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
External links[]
- Index of NLS information page Global Development and Computing Portal, published by Microsoft. Links on page lead to individual country date formats.