This article is about date and time notation in Mongolia.

Date

The date format follows the

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, which has been

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. Consequently, it agrees with year first, month next, and day last. Example: . A leading zero is optional in practice (mostly not added). Cyrillic characters that mean year, month, and day are often used as separators too. Example: . Since the characters clearly label the date, the year may be abbreviated to two digits when this format is used. In speech, the date is spoken in the same format as it is written. Using the example: (pürev), (Khoyor myanga doloon) (ony) (Naiman) () (Арван). Ordinal Mongolian is a

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term used to express the day of the month instead of

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Mongolian. It is rarely used in

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. Using the example: (pürev), (Khoyor myanga doloon) (ony) (Naiman) () (Arvan dakhi). Ordinal Mongolian is more often used when the month is understood from the context, i.e.: 10 дахь for the 10th.

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s are most often identified by the last day of the week, either the

Friday Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. In countries that adopt the traditional "Sunday-first" convention, it is the sixth day of the week. In countries adopting the ISO 8601-defined "Monday-first" convention, it is the fifth ...

in business (e.g., "") or the Sunday in most other use (e.g., ""). The first day of the week or the day of an event are referred to (e.g., ""). The first day of the week is

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(e.g., "") are not often used, but only used in a few traditional calendars.

Time

The

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is often used in spoken language. The 24-hour notation is used in writing, with a colon as the standardised and recommended separator ().

References

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Time in Mongolia