Talk:Date and time notation in Australia
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Date puncation rule
editI use a hyphen, or period when using Day-Month-Year order because to avoid confusion between Month-Day-Year if slashes are used it’s in MM/DD/YYYY, if a hyphen or period is used it’s DD-MM-YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY --2603:6011:E02:E4D4:4879:F0AC:147C:12D5 (talk) 17:47, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
- The separator used makes no difference to the order. It's common to see 31/12/2020 style dates. But we tend to copy Americans a lot, so we also see 12/31/2020 style dates (especially in mastheads and movie posters). Stepho talk 21:53, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Mentioning external territories with their own ISO codes
editShould external territories of Australia with their own ISO codes be also mentioned in this page? Common Locale Data Repository defaults both en-CX (English (Christmas Island)), en-CC (English (Cocos (Keeling) Islands)), and en-NF (English (Norfolk Island)) to use a 24-hour format. Fense Ling (talk) 03:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- Normally I would say that if they have their own ISO codes then they should stand alone in their own article and be linked from here in a "See also" section. But if that article is likely to be tiny then perhaps it is better to put them as a section here and make a redirect pointing here. Stepho talk 08:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Add 6 months to the current date
editSince Australia lies in the Southern Hemisphere, any country in the Southern Hemisphere the date should be 10 May 2025 or use the obsolete Julian Calendar which would be 28 October 2024, a Northern Hemisphere country that experienced summer in January and winter in July would be due to their calendar being off 2603:6011:E00:4C41:0:0:0:1004 (talk) 14:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Absolute rubbish. Anyway, this talk page is for improving the WP page, not about crackpot theories. Stepho talk 20:55, 8 January 2024 (UTC)