Date and time notation in South Africa

Date and time notation in South Africa

South Africa signed up to use ISO 8601 for date and time representation through national standard ARP 010:1989 in 1998.

Date

Even so, the old date format is still commonly used in the format "dd/mm/yyyy", with the "day month year" order being more common with non-numeric month designations.

Time

The old time format is also still commonly used in the format "hh:mm AMPM" The use of "h" as a time separator is still common (e.g., 13h25 in place of 13:25), particularly when only the time is given.