The International Standard for the representation of dates and times is ISO 8601. Its full reference number is ISO 8601 : 1988 (E), and its title is Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times.
yyyy-mm-dd The international format yyyy-mm-dd or yyyymmdd is also accepted, though this format is not commonly used. The formats d. month name yyyy and in handwriting d/m-yy or d/m yyyy are also acceptable.)
Why is there an international standard for writing dates?
The purpose of this standard is to provide an unambiguous and well-defined method of representing dates and times, so as to avoid misinterpretation of numeric representations of dates and times, particularly when data is transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates and times.
No. There is no universally recognised date format. ISO 8601 Defines an international standard for date formats.
How dates are written in Europe?
European commission Official EU documents still tend to use DD. MM. YYYY but one document specifies the use of ISO 8601: Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD.
How are dates written globally?
Youd think something as common and important as writing dates would be standardized by now. And in fact it is, ISO 8601 sets the international standard for writing dates as YYYY-MM-DD.
How are dates written in countries?
Youd think something as common and important as writing dates would be standardized by now. And in fact it is, ISO 8601 sets the international standard for writing dates as YYYY-MM-DD. The most common is the exact opposite of ISO 8601 and goes Day-Month-Year.
How are dates written in Europe?
European commission Official EU documents still tend to use DD. MM. YYYY but one document specifies the use of ISO 8601: Dates should be formatted by the following format: YYYY-MM-DD.