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YYYY-MM-DD is, as far as I know, merely a recommendation in DIN 5008, not in any way the standard in Germany, either officially or informally. DIN 5008 does all
by arrrg 5y ago
YYYY-MM-DD is, as far as I know, merely a recommendation in DIN 5008, not in any way the standard in Germany, either officially or informally. DIN 5008 does allow for DD.MM.YYYY (with the dots and without spaces), Duden recommends spaces after the dots.
- Semaphor 5y agoI looked it up again, you were more right than me ;) If you speak German, you can read about it on Wikipedia [0], essentially it was the only format from 1996 till 2001, but because it was completely ignored, they went back to allowing DD.MM.YYYY, since 2020 it also includes that the old format is only to be used for national mail. [0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datumsformat#DIN_5008 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datumsformat#DIN_5008