In Russia, dates are usually written in "day month year" (DMY) order. The 12-hour notation is often used in the spoken language, and the 24-hour notation is used in writing.

Date

Present

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, dates are usually written in "day month year" (DMY) order. This order is used in both the all-numeric date (for example "") and the expanded form (for example "". Note: The trailing "г" is short for "года" ("of the year"). Coincidentally, in Polish the word for year is "rok", so a similar date format is used by the Poles e.g. 1987r). Single-digit numbers for day or month may have a preceding zero (for example "") is more usual. When saying the date, it is usually pronounced using the ordinal number of the day first (in neutral

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), then the month in

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(for example ""). The first day of the week in Russia is Monday.

Historical

Russia used the

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up to 1700, the

Julian calendar The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...

between 1700 and 1918, and the

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since 1918. Until the final years of

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in the early 1720s, Russia used

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to denote dates on coins. Thus, for example, СИ (208) denoted 7208 AM (which began on 1 September 1699 became a short year with only four months, running from 1 September 1699 through 31 December 1699 ( O.S.)) and ҂АѰ (1700) denoted AD 1700 OS (which began on 1 January).

Time

The

12-hour notation The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin , translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin , translating to "after midday"). Each period consists of 12&nb ...

is often used in the spoken language. The

24-hour notation The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from to , with as an option to indicate ...

is used in writing, with a colon as the standardised and recommended separator (e.g. “”). Sometimes full stop is used as a separator (e.g. 9.07), or (in handwritten text) the minutes may be written as superscript and underlined (e.g. 9⁰⁷).

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