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{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}

[[ISO 8601]] has been adopted as [[Bureau of Indian Standards|BIS]] IS 7900:2001 (Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times - first revision).<ref name="bis">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bis.org.in/sf/pow1.asp?d=MS&c=005&x=DOCUMENTATION+AND+INFORMATION+SECTIONAL+COMMITTEE|title=Standards Published|publisher=[[Bureau of Indian Standards]]|access-date=2008-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901205604/http://bis.org.in/sf/pow1.asp?d=MS&c=005&x=DOCUMENTATION+AND+INFORMATION+SECTIONAL+COMMITTEE|archive-date=2007-09-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) of the Government of India thus officially recommends use of the date format YYYY-MM-DD.

==Date==
In [[India]], the DD-MM-YY is the predominant short form of the numeric date usage. The [[hyphen]] (-) is the separator symbol. Almost all government documents need to be filled up in the DD-MM-YYYY format. An example of DD-MM-YYYY usage is the passport application form.<ref name="indianpassport">{{Cite web|url=http://passport.gov.in/cpv/ppapp1.pdf|title=Passport Application Form|publisher=Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India|access-date=2008-09-20}}</ref>

But two expanded forms are used in India. The DD MMMM YYYY usage is more prevalent over the MMMM DD, YYYY usage except the latter is more used by media publications, such as the print version of the ''[[Times of India]]''<ref>http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&login=default&Enter=true&Skin=TOI&GZ=T {{deadlink|date=September 2020}}</ref> and ''[[The Hindu]]''.<ref name="hindu">{{Cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/11/11/stories/2003111101861200.htm|title=The Hindu|access-date=2008-09-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210192920/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/11/11/stories/2003111101861200.htm|archive-date=2007-12-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Many government websites, including Prime Minister's official website, retain the historical format use by Britain (MMMM DD, YYYY) during the colonial era until sometimes 20th century.

{{Citation needed span|text=In India, dates in astrology or religious purposes are written in a year-month-day format.|date=December 2020}} {{Citation needed span|text=This order is also found while reading dates in South Indian languages. (For example, 15 August 1947 would be read in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as {{lang|ta|1947 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆகஸ்ட் 15 ஆம் நாள்.}}) Whereas, north Indian languages, notably [[Standard Hindi|Hindi]] and [[Bengali language|Bengali]], follow a "day month year" format for reading the dates (15 August 1947 will be read as {{lang|hi|15 अगस्त सन 1947}} in Hindi and {{lang|bn|১৫ অগস্ট ১৯৪৭ সাল}} in Bengali).|date=December 2020}} {{Citation needed span|text=However, in written form, it is traditionally in "day month year" order, using a stroke or hyphen as the separator. This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "31/12/99" or "31-12-99") as well as in the expanded form (e.g., "31 December 1999"). Sometimes, the ordinal number for the day before the month is written down (e.g., "31st December 1999"). When saying the date, it is usually pronounced by the ordinal number of the day first then the word "of" then the month (e.g. "thirty-first of December 1999"). The use of its big-endian date notation is not very prevalent.|date=December 2020}}

The month-day-year (12/31/1999) in short format, is never used in India, but regionally used in [[Bodo language|Bodo]].

Considerable confusion is created, when the date format is set to American ([[United States]]) by default in some software applications. This format is often used on Indian websites of American companies. Little care is taken by many software developers to ensure that the date format is set to Indian when their software is meant to be used in India.

Mondays are the start of the week as per ISO 8601. Traditionally, Sunday (Ravivara) is considered as the first day of the week in India and the [[Indian national calendar|official calendar]] reckoned by the Government Of India has Sunday to Saturday as the week.<ref name=GoIcalendar>{{cite web |title=Government Holiday Calendar |url=https://www.india.gov.in/calendar |date= |publisher=[[Govt. of India]] Official website |page=}}</ref> In Indian Railway time tables day 1 is Monday and day 7 is Sunday, e.g. train 12345 runs on days 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, in other words Monday through Friday.

==Time==
The 12-hour notation is widely used in daily life, written communication, and is used in spoken language. The 24-hour notation is used in rare situations where there would be widespread ambiguity. Examples include railway timetables, plane departure and landing timings. A colon is used to separate hours, minutes and seconds (for example 10:00:15). However, full stop is almost exclusively used instead of colons in [[Bengali language|Bengali]].

==See also ==
* [[Time in India]]
* [[Hindu units of time]]
* [[History of measurement systems in India]]
* [[Daylight saving time]]
* [[Daylight saving time by country]]

==References==
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[[Category:Time in India]]
[[Category:Date and time representation by country|India]]

Date and time notation in India - Revision history

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