How to Formally Write the Date. Part 1.
Did you know the Month/Day/Year (12/01/1994) format is almost exclusive to the U.S.? Belize and Micronesia also use this format and it is secondary in Canada and the Philippines. Anywhere else you live or travel, you’re more likely to find the date written in the little endian format: Day/Month/Year (01/12/1994).
Here are some of the regions that format their date in the Day/Month/Year format:
Africa
Asia
Central America (except Belize)
Mexico
Oceania
South America
Europe
Things get interesting when you’re in Spanish-speaking countries. Look to see if most of the people living or working around you drop the zero when the day or month is a single digit. That seems to be the norm. So, March 2, 2017 would be 2/3/2017 instead of 02/03/2017.
