Date and time notation in South Africa

Date and time notation in South Africa describes methods of expressing date and time used South Africa.

Date and time notation in South Africa []
Full dateEnglish:
  • 17 March 2023

Afrikaans:

  • 17 Maart 2023
All-numeric date2023/03/17
2023-03-17
03/17/2023 (in Zulu)
Time10:21

Date

South Africa signed up to use ISO 8601 for date and time representation through national standard ARP 010:1989 in 1998 A.D. The most recent South African Bureau of Standards standard SANS 8601:2009 "... is the identical implementation of ISO 8601:2004, and is adopted with the permission of the International Organization for Standardization" and was reviewed in 2016.

All-numerical dates are written in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa as 2023-03-17 or 2023/03/17 and in Zulu as 03/17/2023.[1]

The week is from Sunday until Saturday.[2] The first week of the year contains January 1, when there a new year begins.[3]

English

In English, the long date format is written in the day-month-year order (17 March 2023) and the short date format is written in the year-month-day order (2023-03-17 or 2023/03/17).[4]

Afrikaans

In Afrikaans, the long date format is written in the day-month-year order (17 Maart 2023) and the short date format is written in the year-month-day order (2023-03-17).[5]

Xhosa

In Xhosa, the date is written in the year-month-day order (long format can't be displayed here due to the limitation with Template:Time; short format: 2023-03-17).[6]

Zulu

In the Zulu language, the date is written in the month-day-year order (long format can't be displayed here due to the limitation with Template:Time; short format: 03/17/2023).[1]

Time

The 24-hour notation in hour-minute(s) order used a colon as a separator (10:21).

References
  1. "DateTime::Locale::zu_ZA - Locale data examples for the Zulu South Africa (zu-ZA) locale - metacpan.org". metacpan.org. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  2. "First Day of the Week in Different Countries".
  3. "Current Week in South Africa - Savvy Time".
  4. "DateTime::Locale::en_ZA - Locale data examples for the English South Africa (en-ZA) locale - metacpan.org". metacpan.org. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  5. "DateTime::Locale::af_ZA - Locale data examples for the Afrikaans South Africa (af-ZA) locale - metacpan.org". metacpan.org. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  6. "DateTime::Locale::xh_ZA - Locale data examples for the Xhosa South Africa (xh-ZA) locale - metacpan.org". metacpan.org. Retrieved 19 April 2021.


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