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Date puncation rule

I use a hyphen, or period when using Day-Month-Year order because to avoid confusion between Month-Day-Year if slashes are used it’s in MM/DD/YYYY, if a hyphen or period is used it’s DD-MM-YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY --2603:6011:E02:E4D4:4879:F0AC:147C:12D5 (talk) 17:47, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The separator used makes no difference to the order. It's common to see 31/12/2020 style dates. But we tend to copy Americans a lot, so we also see 12/31/2020 style dates (especially in mastheads and movie posters). Stepho talk 21:53, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mentioning external territories with their own ISO codes

Should external territories of Australia with their own ISO codes be also mentioned in this page? Common Locale Data Repository defaults both en-CX (English (Christmas Island)), en-CC (English (Cocos (Keeling) Islands)), and en-NF (English (Norfolk Island)) to use a 24-hour format. Fense Ling (talk) 03:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Normally I would say that if they have their own ISO codes then they should stand alone in their own article and be linked from here in a "See also" section. But if that article is likely to be tiny then perhaps it is better to put them as a section here and make a redirect pointing here. Stepho talk 08:45, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]