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03 mmm – three-letter abbreviation for month, e.g. 2021 m – one-digit month for months below 10, e.g.
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Specific formats for the basic components: 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.Īll examples use example date / 2021 March 31 / 31 March 2021 / Ma– except where a single-digit day is illustrated.īasic components of a calendar date for the most common calendar systems:ī – big-endian (year, month, day), e.g.
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The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD () is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations. This can result in dates that are impossible to understand correctly without knowing the writer's origin and/or other contextual details, as dates such as "01/11/06" can be interpreted as "1 November 2006" in the DMY format, "January 11, 2006" in MDY, and "2001 November 6" in YMD, and in some extremely rare cases "2001 11 June" in YDM format. Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "30 August 2022" (30/08/22,, 30-08-2022 or ) and month–day formats such as "August 30, 2022" (08/30/22 or ). 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.