DDMMYY

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DDMMYY

  1. Used on forms to indicate that the date should be written as two-digit days, months, and years, e.g. 020411 for 2 April 2011
    • 1998, Adrienne Escoe, Nimble Documentation, page 69:
      For example, in the United States, MMDDYY (Month Day Year) is common, although DDMMYY is used sometimes.
    • 2013, Jason Wood, William Brown, Harry Howe, IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises, page 167:
      The Hire Date/ Adjusted Hire Date/Last Day Worked must be inputted as DDMMYY or DDMMYYYY.
    • 2016, Ganesh Natarajan, Prameela Kalive, From Start-Up to Global Success: The Zensar Story:
      Data fields coded into structured programming languages in the 1960s and 1970s were restricted to DDMMYY.

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Adjective

DDMMYY (not comparable)

  1. (of a representation of a date) Having dates represented in day-month-year order of two-digit days, months, and years.
    • 1981, Auerbach Publishers, editor, Practical data base management, page 131:
      This feature is greatly appreciated by programmers bored with converting YYMMDD dates to DDMMYY or MMDDYY for display.
    • 1987, Accountancy, volume 100:
      It starts by describing the numbered menu structure, the standard DDMMYY input for all dates....
    • 2010, Nathan Griffiths, Kuo-Ming Chao, Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing, page 158:
      The problem may arise as follows: the user, when specifying the delivery date, provides the date in a DDMMYY format. whereas the service expects a DD/MM/YY date format.
    • 2012, Clement J. McDonald, Buying Equipment and Programs for Home or Office, page 15:
      For example, a date entered as “01/10/83” should play back as “01 OCT 83” to indicate that the computer assumed a DDMMYY input convention.