Implementation of the ISO 8601 Standard Around The World.

Author: Ian Galpin, G1SMD. Original Date: 1998-Feb-10.

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The Year-Month-Day Date Format is defined for use in the following standards documents:

International Implementation:
- International Standard: ISO 8601:1988
  (ISO 8601 replaces ISO 2014, ISO 2015, ISO 2711, ISO 3307 and ISO 4031).
Other Major Implementations:
- European Norm: EN 28601:1992.
- USA Standard: ANSI X3.30-1985(R1991).
- USA Standard: NIST FIPS 4-1.
- Japan: JIS X 0301-1992.
- Canada: CSA Z234.5:1989.
- Australia: AS 3802:1997.
- South Africa: ARP 010:1989.
All members of CEN (all of Western Europe and Scandinavia, and most of Eastern Europe) are required to adopt the EN 28601 European Standard. Most have now done so, as detailed below:
- Austria: OENORM EN 28601.
- Belgium: NBN EN 28601 (1993).
- Czech Republic: CSN EN 28601.
- Denmark: DS/EN 28601.
- Finland: SFS-EN 28601.
- France: NF EN 28601 (1993).
- Germany: DIN EN 28601 (1993) & DIN 5008 (1996).
- Greece: ELOT EN 28601.
- Iceland: IST EN 28601:1992.
- Ireland: IS/EN 28601:1993.
- Italy: UNI EN 28601 (1993).
- Luxembourg: ITM-EN 28601.
- Netherlands: NEN ISO 8601 (1994) & NEN EN 28601 (1994).
- Norway: NS-ISO 8601.
- Portugal: EN 28601.
- Spain: UNE EN 28601.
- Sweden: SS-EN 28601 (1991).
- Switzerland: SN-EN 28601-1994.
- United Kingdom: BS EN 28601:1992 (replaces BS 7151).
Other implementations:
- Poland: PN-90/N-01204.
  Poland is not currently a member of CEN.

Compiled by: Ian Galpin, 1998-Feb-10. Revised: 1998-Oct-22.

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