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 international standard recommends writing the date as year, then month, then the day: YYYY-MM-DD. So if both Australians and Americans used this, they would both write the date as 2019-02-03. Writing the date this way avoids confusion by placing the year first.
Despite the variety of date formats used around world, the US is the only country to insist on using mm-dd-yyyy.
America inherited the months-first dates from the United Kingdom where it was occasionally used until the early 20th century, according to Reddit. American colonists favoured the monthly format, while the British Empire drifted towards the European style of dd-mm-yyyy.
Most of Europe uses DD/MM/YY. Japan uses YY/MM/DD. The separators may be slashes, dashes or periods. Some locales print leading zeroes, others suppress them.
The most commonly used date format in Japan is "year month day (weekday)", with the Japanese characters meaning "year", "month" and "day" inserted after the numerals. Example: 2008年12月31日 (水) for "Wednesday 31 December 2008".
In Australia and the United Kingdom, the sequence is day, month, year – for example, 7/12/2020. In the United States and some other countries, it is month, day, year – for example, 12/7/2020.
Dates written in Chinese are organized based on cardinal numbers, and when a date is expressed, the order is as follows: 年– 月- 日(nián – yuè – rì) or year – month – day. In Chinese: 我是1998年出生的。 Pinyin: Wǒ shì yī jiǔ jiǔ bā nián chū shēng de.
The YYYY - MM - DD format is the only method of writing a numeric date in Canada that allows unambiguous interpretation, and the only officially recommended format. The presence of the DD / MM / YY (most of the world) and MM / DD / YY (American) formats often results in misinterpretation.
The date format follows the Chinese hierarchical system, which has traditionally been big-endian. Consequently, it correlates with ISO 8601 — year first, month next, and day last (e.g. 2006-01-29).
The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months of thirty days plus five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month. The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Ge'ez.
Civil calendars worldwide
Five countries have not adopted the Gregorian calendar: Afghanistan and Iran (which use the Solar Hijri calendar), Ethiopia and Eritrea (the Ethiopian calendar), and Nepal (Vikram Samvat and Nepal Sambat).
Date and time notation in New Zealand most commonly records the date using the day-month-year format (17 June 2023), while the ISO 8601 format (2023-06-17) is increasingly used for all-numeric dates, such as date of birth. The time can be written using either the 12-hour clock (12:20 pm) or the 24-hour clock (12:20).
Most of the World Uses the Day, Month, Year Format
The vast majority of the world uses the format: day, then month, then year. Using the example above, 1/10/2022 would stand for the 1st of October, 2022.
Maya. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar dates the creation of the world of human beings to 11 August 3114 BC (in the most commonly accepted correlation) according to the proleptic Gregorian calendar, or Monday, 6 September 3114 BC according to the proleptic Julian calendar.
The formal way of writing the date is day, then date, then month. For example, you would write mardi, 18 avril (Tuesday, 18 April). Note that the French don't use “th” or “st” with the numbers like we do.
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.)
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).
An example of the way the ancient Egyptians wrote out the date would be 'Regnal year 2, third month of Peret, day 5'. The Egyptian year consisted of three seasons: Akhet ('flooding'), Peret ('going forth'= planting) and Shemsu ('summer' = harvest). Each season had four months of 30 days each.
In Vietnam, dates follow the "day month year" order. All-numeric dates can be written as: d/m/yyyy (9/1/2021) d-m-yyyy (9-1-2021)
There has been increasing support for changing the date of Australia Day in acknowledgement of opposition from Indigenous groups, with many referring to it as Invasion Day or Survival Day.
Date and time notation in Australia most commonly records the date using the day-month-year format (17 June 2023), while the ISO 8601 format (2023-06-17) is increasingly used for all-numeric dates.
Australia's previous conservative government - in power from 2013 until last year - consistently rejected calls to change the date. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his Labor government has no plans to move it either, although he has relaxed rules which forced councils and public service staff to mark the day.