Locale Date |
This is the format used by the current locale. Locales differ in how they format dates as follows:
“American” dates are formatted mm/dd/yyyy (dateformat 1). “European” dates are formatted dd/mm/yyyy (dateformat 4). All locales use dateformat 1 except the following — csyw, deuw, engw, espw, eurw, fraw, itaw, mitw, ptbw, rusw, skyw, svnw, turw, ukrw — which use dateformat 4.
American dates use a period (.) as a decimalseparator for fractional seconds. European dates use a comma (,) as a decimalseparator for fractional seconds, except the following — engw, eurw, skyw — which use a period.
All locales use a slash (/) as the dateseparator character, except the following, which use a period (.) as the dateseparator character — Czech (csyw), Russian (rusw), Slovak (skyw), Slovenian (svnw), and Ukrainian (ukrw). |