TagMonatJahr

TagMonatJahr is a date notation that orders calendar dates from the day to the month and then the year, a convention common in German-speaking regions. The typical written form is day.month.year, often rendered as dd.mm.yyyy with dots as separators. For example, 31.12.2024 represents December 31, 2024. In everyday use, days and months are usually shown with two digits, including leading zeros (01.02.2024); informal writing may omit the zeros (1.2.2024).

Variations exist in separators and punctuation. The dot is the standard in formal German, while slashes (31/12/2024) may appear in informal contexts or international materials. Some typography and printing guidelines also prefer two-digit components for clarity and alignment.

Official standards and usage differ by context. DIN 5008, the German standard for business writing, commonly recommends the dd.mm.yyyy format for dates in documents. In data interchange and international contexts, ISO 8601 prescribes the unambiguous yyyy-mm-dd form, which is less common in everyday German writing but widely used in computing and cross-border communications.

The term TagMonatJahr emphasizes the ordering rather than a specific software or protocol. It reflects how dates are presented in many German-language environments and highlights the importance of locale settings in software, where the same date can be rendered in different orders depending on language and regional preferences.