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Date and time notation in Catalunya

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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>.

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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:

  • dl for dilluns (Monday)
  • dt for dimarts (Tuesday)
  • dc for dimecres (Wednesday)
  • dj for dijous (Thursday)
  • dv for divendres (Friday)
  • ds for dissabte (Saturday)
  • dg (also dium) for diumenge (Sunday).
  • Months

  • Gener (January)
  • Febrer (February)
  • Març (March)
  • Abril (April)
  • Maig (May)
  • Juny (June)
  • Juliol (July)
  • Agost (August)
  • Setembre (September)
  • Octubre (October)
  • Novembre (November)
  • Desembre (December)
  • 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.

    References

    Date and time notation in Catalunya Wikipedia