Date and time notation in Belgium

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According to the BIN standard (NBN Z 01-002), there are three ways to write a date in Belgium:

  • day d month yyyy ("maandag 9 september 2000"/"lundi 9 septembre 2000"/"Montag, den 9. September 2000")
  • dd.mm.yyyy ("09.09.2000")
  • yyyy-mm-dd ("2000-09-09") is the ISO 8601.

All Belgian weeks begin on Monday at 00:00.

In written language, time is expressed exclusively in 24-hour using a colon to separate hours and minutes (HH:MM). It is written 09:09/21:21.

References

  1. ^ "Datumnotatie" [Date format]. Taaltelefoon (in Dutch). Vlaanderen. 2015-06-07.
  2. ^ Belgian Federal Government – Portal, which itself uses dd/mm/yyyy
  3. ^ VVKSO (2005). BIN-NORMEN. Brussels: LICAP CVBA. ISBN 978-90-6858-651-0. Archived from the original on 2011-01-21. Retrieved 2011-01-12. Short version:
  4. ^ http://trac2.assembla.com/Team6GPR/export/3/BIN-normen.pdf Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]