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Official EU documents still tend to use DD. In most post-Soviet states DD. YYYY format is used with dots as separators and with leading zeros. The traditional all-numeric form of writing Gregorian dates in German is the little-endian day.
Years could be written with two or four digits; the century was sometimes seen being replaced by an apostrophe: " Numbers may be written with or without leading zero in Austria or Switzerland, where they are commonly only discarded in days when literal months are being used e. There should always be a space after a dot: The use of a dot as a separator matches the convention of pronouncing the day and the month as an ordinal number , because ordinal numbers are written in German followed by a dot.
German grammar rules do not allow leading zeros in dates, however leading zeros were allowed according to machine writing standards if they helped aligning dates. In Germany , it is not uncommon in casual speech to use numbers to refer to months, rather than their names e.
Besides that, in Hungary the big-endian year-month-day order has been traditionally used. In , also in Germany, the traditional notation was replaced in the DIN standard, which defines common typographic conventions, with the ISO notation e. The latter is beginning to become more popular, especially in IT-related work and international projects.
