Talk:Date and time notation in Australia
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Date puncation rule
[edit]I 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
[edit]Should 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
[edit]Since Australia lies in the Southern Hemisphere, any country in the Southern Hemisphere the date should be 19 June 2025 or use the obsolete Julian Calendar which would be 6 December 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)