Date
In Catalunya (or Catalonia) the date order is day, month, year. In most situations, the grammar and syntax rules are applied to this format: <Weekday>, <monthday> de/d' <Month> de/del <year>.
Contents
For example: Dimecres, 20 d'abril de 2011 or Dijous, 5 de maig del 2005. Note that months are not written in capitals.
The short format usually uses slashes or dashes in a day/month/year format: 20/04/2011 the trailing zeros being optional.
Two-digit years are used for short mainly informally where no confusion arises, as in handwriting letters, notes and diaries. Official documents always use full four-digit years.
Week
The week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday. In short form, days can be written as follows:
Months
Time
In Catalonia there are three spoken word time systems: traditional, modern and a mixture of both. It depends greatly on each Catalan variant.
The traditional uses the quarters as a unit reference based on analog clocks, while the modern one is based on the digital clocks.