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Standard Formating

Date Format (ISO8601)

Date2019-05-10
Date and time in UTC2019-05-10T20:18:46+00:00
2019-05-10T20:18:46Z
20190510T201846Z
Week2019-W19
Date with week number2019-W19-5
Date without year--05-10[1]
Ordinal date2019-130

Display Format (order of preference)

Full Date:

  1. December 10, 2019
  2. 10 December 2019
  3. December 2019

Numbers Only Date

  1. 2019-12-10
  2. 2019-12
  3. 2018 to 2019

Date Ranges

  1. December 10 to December 25, 2019
  2. 2019-12-10 to 2019-12-25
  3. Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Today, Tomorrow, This Week

  1. Today (December 10, 2019)
  2. Tomorrow (December 11, 2019)
  3. This week (Dec 10 to Dec 17, 2019

Time:

  1. 3 p.m.
  2. 3:25 a.m.


How to Ask For Date Information

The way you should ask users for dates depends on the types of date you’re asking for. When asking for a date from an existing document be sure to make the fields match the format of the existing document. This makes it easier for users to copy the date across accurately.

Dates you may need users to provide include:

  • dates from documents or cards, like a passport or credit card
  • approximate dates, like ‘December 2017’
  • relative dates, like ‘4 days from today’

In some cases you might need users to pick a date from a given selection.

Generally

When asking for a date from an existing document be sure to make the fields match the format of the existing document. This makes it easier for users to copy the date across accurately.

Helping Users Pick a Date

Users might need to pick a date from a selection, for example, to book an appointment.

To do this, you can present dates in a calendar format using a calendar control. Users are typically shown one month’s worth of dates at a time, and can skip through months and years.

Only use a calendar control if users need to:

  • pick a date in the near future or recent past
  • know the day of the week, or the week of the month, as well as the date
  • be able to see dates in relation to other dates

Never make a calendar control that depends on JavaScript as the only input option. Allow users to enter the date into a text input as well as use the control.

How to Check that Dates Are Valid

To check that the dates users give you are valid, make sure that:

  • it’s a real date, for example, not 54 July
  • past dates are in the past
  • future dates are in the future
  • the first date in a date range is before the second

Handling Errors

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Resources:

https://www.ontario.ca/document/go-its-7400-date-format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


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