Date formats by country

Asked by: milen
Published on: 07:24/31.07.2008
Status: OPEN

Where I can find the country specific date formats?
I want to use for the date input fields, one of the following date formats:

dd/mm/yyyy
yyyy/mm/dd
mm/dd/yyyy

and I want to know which is the official(most commonly used) date format for each country.

Answer by: xpert
Posted on: 07:23/31.07.2008
Rating: No votes so far

dd/mm/yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy (day, month, year)
Using the dd/mm/yyyy format, the 30th December 2006 would be written as 30/12/2006. The dd/mm/yyyy format is used in:

Albania
Argentina
Armenia (dd.mm.yyyy)
Australia
Austria (using dots (which denote ordinal numbering) as in “d.m.(yy)yy” or sometimes "d. month (yy)yy")
Azerbaijan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria (dd.mm.yyyy)
Canada (All 3 main types are used in Canada - in French and in English)
Chile
Colombia
Croatia (d. m. yyyy. or d. month yyyy.)
Cyprus
Czech Republic (d.m.yyyy)
Denmark (The format dd-mm-yy(yy) is the traditional Danish date format. The international format yyyy-mm-dd or yyyymmdd is also accepted. There are no preferences, although the traditional format is the most widely used. The formats dd.'monthname' yyyy and in handwriting d/m/yy are also acceptable. [6])
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia (d.m.yyyy or d. month yyyy)
Finland (d.m.yyyy or d. month yyyy)
France
Georgia (dd.mm.yyyy)
Germany (using dots (which denote ordinal numbering) as in “d.m.(yy)yy” or sometimes "d. month (yy)yy")
Greece
Grenada
Guyana
Hong Kong (in English)
Iceland (dd.mm.yyyy)
Iran (yyyy/mm/dd)
Ireland
India (DD/MM/YYYY)
Indonesia (dd-mm-yyyy)
Iraq (dd-mm-yyyy)
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Latvia (dd.mm.yyyy is used more often, but official standard is year-month-day)
Libya
Macau (in Portuguese & English)
Malaysia
Mexico
Montenegro (d.m.yyyy)
Netherlands (using hyphens as in “dd-mm-(yy) yy”, very often "d month (yy)yy")
New Zealand
Norway (d.m.y; the fraction form d/m-y is common, but incorrect[citation needed])
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines (in Filipino)
Poland (d.mm.yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy, more official is d <month in genitive> yyyy, sometimes old-school format d <month as roman figure> yyyy, often with dots as separators)
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia (dd.mm.yyyy)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saudi Arabia (dd/mm/yyyy, except for major companies, which conventionally use the American mm/dd/yyyy format)
Serbia (d.m.yyyy)
Singapore
Slovakia (d.m.yyyy)
Slovenia (d.m.yyyy or d. mmmm yyyy)
Spain
Sweden (as d/m yyyy or d.m.yyyy, although the yyyy-mm-dd form is more common.)
Switzerland (dd.mm.yyyy)
Tajikistan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Thailand (with Buddhist Era instead of Common Era)
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Turkmenistan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Ukraine (dd.mm.yyyy)
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan (dd.mm.yyyy)
Venezuela
Vietnam

Answer by: xpert
Posted on: 07:23/31.07.2008
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mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy (month, day, year)
Using the mm/dd/yy format, December 30, 2006 would be written as 12/30/06.

The mm/dd/yy format is used in:

Canada (Although most official documents use the yyyy-mm-dd format, the mm/dd/yy format is also understood due to influences from the United States.)
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
Philippines (d/m/yy in Filipino language. May still be found in certain contexts, mm/dd/yy is used in English)
United States

Answer by: xpert
Posted on: 07:24/31.07.2008
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yyyy-mm-dd (year, month, day)
Using the yyyy-mm-dd format, the 30th of December 2006 would be written as 2006-12-30.

Used internationally in some contexts as the ISO 8601 standard
Canada (yyyy-mm-dd) (All 3 main types are used in Canada- in French and in English)
China (yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy年m月d日)
Denmark (The format dd-mm-yy(yy) is the traditional Danish date format. The international format yyyy-mm-dd or yyyymmdd is also accepted. There are no preferences, although the traditional format is the most widely used. The formats dd.'monthname' yyyy and in handwriting d/m/yy are also acceptable. [6])
Europe[7]
Hong Kong (same as China)
Hungary (yyyy.mm.dd – traditionally the number of the month is most often written in Roman numerals)
Japan, often in the form yyyy年m月d日; sometimes Japanese era year is used, e.g. 平成18年12月30日.
Korea (yyyy년 mm월 dd일)
Latvia (But often dd.mm.yyyy. is used)
Lithuania (yyyy-mm-dd)
Macau (same as China)
Middle East
Mongolia (yyyy-mm-dd)
Nepal
South Africa ("d/m/yy" is a common alternative)
Sweden
Taiwan; same as China except year might be represented using ROC era system.