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Originally Posted by Acajack
It's been my (totally unscientific) observation that many of the British-originated Canadianisms (or all-out Britishisms) are much less common or even non-existent when you pass the Manitoba-Ontario border going west. And that from there on, American usages for many things tend to predominate. It's not 100%, and many Canadian-British things are still in use in the West, but it's not as pervasive as in points more to the east.
Another example I noticed in a job I had and also travelling is it's extremely rare to see the numeric date as DDMMYY in Western Canada. It's almost always the American MMDDYY that you see.
You also see MMDDYY from Ontario eastwards (though very rare in Quebec unless programmed by an American-made machine of some sort) but it's more of a mix and DDMMYY is also very commonly seen in the anglophone provinces IMO.
Aside from that MMDDYY is almost exclusively American usage. The rest of the world uses DDMMYY or YYMMDD/YYYYMMDD.
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I typically see DDMMYY, but both are certainly around. It's quite frustrating to see a date like 03/02/2015 and not know whether its February 3rd or March 2nd.
In under-the-hood computer systems, the near-universal standard is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, specified in 24-hour time in the GMT time zone.
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