The international standard recommends writing the date as year, then month, then the day: YYYY-MM-DD. So if both the Australian and American used this, they would both write the date as 2019-02-03. Writing the date this way avoids confusion by placing the year first. Much of Asia uses this form when writing the date.
In Australia and the United Kingdom, the sequence is day, month, year – for example, 7/12/2020.
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).
The ISO date format
For example, "3rd of April 2002", in this international format is written: 2002-04-03 .
In more formal, international contexts yyyy-mm-dd is the preferred allowed format.
Foods should not be eaten after the use-by date and can't legally be sold after this date because they may pose a health or safety risk. Most foods have a best-before date. You can still eat foods for a while after the best-before date as they should be safe but they may have lost some quality.
Australia is divided into three separate time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) Australian Central Standard Time (ACST), and. Australian Western Standard Time (AWST)
As time went on, sell by dates became common, but consistency didn't. In Australia, manufacturers were legally required to date mark their food from 1978, following the US' introduction of the practice in the mid-'70s, and since then the requirements for labelling have evolved and been amended.
A use-by date on food is about safety. This is the most important date to remember. Never eat food after the use-by date, even if it looks and smells ok, as it could make you very ill. You can eat food until midnight on the use-by date shown on a product, but not after, unless the food has been cooked or frozen.
Recent moves to promote changing the date of our national day are informed by the fact that many Australians – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – feel they cannot celebrate on January 26, because that date marks the commencement of a long history of dispossession and trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
LocalDateTime is an immutable date-time object that represents a date-time with default format as yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss.
Date formats around the world
It comes from computer science where bytes are arranged according to their size. If the order has larger ones at the front, it's known as big-endian and so too are dates formatted with the years first (see the likes of China and Mongolia in the map above).
In its colonial days South Australia was on a central time zone - an hour behind the east - until 1899. Under pressure from the chamber of commerce to adopt eastern standard time (EST), the government of the day came up with a compromise that put clocks 30 minutes behind those on Australia's eastern seaboard.
Seasonal change was reintroduced during World War II, when it was used from 1942 to 1944. After the end of the war, DST was not observed in any Australian state or territory until October 1, 1967, when Tasmania reintroduced it during a drought. The state has continued changing its clocks ever since.
Countries with a large distance from west to east are often devided into two or more timezones to adjust daytimes to the position of the sun. Timezones are always computed relative to UTC, the "Universal Time Coordinated". In Australia, there is a time difference of up to 2.5 hours between the east and the west.
It's tied between Russia and the USA. Russia is the largest country in the world, and has the most contiguous time zones (successive time zones that touch each other, without territories). Russia covers from Eastern Europe to Northeast Asia, and there are 11 different time zones spanning from UTC -2 to UTC -12.