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6. DATE AND TIME CONVENTIONS

Abbreviated formats for date representation are presented in the table below in preference order. The date category is marked according to the IBM manual "National Language Support Reference Manual. Volume 2". In the table, yyyy represents the 4-digit year number, yy the two last digits of the year number, mm the month number, dd the day number. In Estonia, a full stop is used to separate the elements of the abbreviated date (in other countries, a solidus or hyphen is also used).

	Category	     Abbreviation	 Example
           D                  dd.mm.yyyy         19.09.1990
           B                  dd.mm.yy           19.09.90
           A                  yyyy.mm.dd         1990.09.19
Names and abbreviations:
January	- jaanuar	- jaan		July	- juuli		- juuli
February- veebruar	- veebr		August	- august	- aug
March	- märts	        - märts		September- september	- sept
April	- aprill	- apr		October	- oktoober	- okt
May	- mai	        - mai		November- november	- nov
June	- juuni	        - juuni		December- detsember	- dets
Names and abbreviations of the week days (in Estonia, Monday is considered as the first day of the week):
Monday	- esmaspäev	- E	Friday	- reede	        - R
Tuesday	- teisipäev	- T	Saturday- laupäev	- L
Wednesday- kolmapäev	- K	Sunday	- pühapäev	- P
Thursday- neljapäev	- N
The full-length presentation of the date looks as follows:
dd. mmmmm yyyy. a.,
where mmmm is the full or abbreviated name of the month. For example,
19. september 1990. a.
19. sept 1990. a.
To present the time of the day, in Estonia the 24 hour system is used. Hours, minutes and seconds are separated through colons. If the fractions of seconds are to be marked, they are added to the time after a comma. According to the standards ISO 3307 and ISO 1000, the same separator has to be used as in representing quantities.
Examples:
22:42:00
22:42:00,0300015
The transfer to the summer time in Estonia takes place on the last Sunday in March, transfer to winter time on the last Sunday in September. The clock is moved at 02:00. /Editor's note: according to decree No.234 24-09-1996 the transfer to winter time takes place on the last Sunday in October at 03.00 (01.00 GMT)/

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