Ways To Write the Calendar Date in Different CountriesIn Feburary 2016 24,

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In North America, the date is usually expressed month-day-year, either numerically or with the month written as a word. When the date is written strictly numerically, it is widely accepted to separate the parts of the date with a slash; 04/21/01. Numbers less than ten are written with a 0 preceding the digit and years are shortened to the last two digits to keep the date to the mm/dd/yy format. The year can be extended to four digits for historical dates if using only two digits will cause confusion.
European Format
Across much of Europe, the date is written as day-month-year. Like American notations, the European format uses a 0 in front of numbers lower than ten. The parts of the date can be separated by either slashes, dashes or periods: dd/mm/yy; dd-mm-yy or dd.mm.yy, respectively.
Other Formats
Australia adheres to the European format, but much of India and East Asia uses a different format altogether: year-month-day. This format is known as 'big-endian' and is taken from a colloquial term for the way binary information is stored in different platforms, big-endian meaning with the biggest integer first. The big-endian date format is usually expressed as, for example, 2002-01-27, which would represent January 27, 2002.
International Standard
The International Standards Organization has set big-endian formation as the accepted standard. Expressing the date in this format, which is only ever used digitally and never with the names of months written, transcends most languages and is easily read and written by computer software. Big-endian notation always uses single dashes to separate parts of the date and always moves from the biggest part (the year) to the smallest (the day) from left to right.
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