According to the BIN standard (NBN Z 01-002), there are three ways to write a date in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

: *''day d month yyyy'' ("maandag 9 september 2000"/"lundi 9 septembre 2000"/"Montag, den 9. September 2000") *''dd.mm.yyyy'' ("09.09.2000") *''yyyy-mm-dd'' ("2000-09-09") is the

ISO 8601 ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data. It is maintained by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, wi ...

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/ref>http://trac2.assembla.com/Team6GPR/export/3/BIN-normen.pdf All Belgian weeks begin on Monday at 00:00. In written language, time is expressed exclusively in 24-hour using a colon to separate hours and minutes (HH:MM). It is written 09:09/21:21.

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