Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

uses both the DMY and YMD format when writing dates, and uses 12-hour format for time.

Date

YYYY-MM-DD is official date format for the Bikram Sambat calendar used in Nepal. While speaking and writing full BS dates, the ''mmmm d, yyyy'' format is often used alongside the ''yyyy mmmm d'' format. For instance, the 23rd of

Chaitra Chaitra (Hindi: चैत्र) is a month of the Hindu calendar. In the standard Hindu calendar and India's national civil calendar, Chaitra is the first month of the year. It is the last month in the Bengali calendar, where it is called Cho ...

, 2077 BS can be spoken and written as Chaitra 23, 2077 () or 2077 Chaitra 23 (). An example of Vikram Samvat YYYY-MM-DD usage used is the online news portal Onlinekhabar. When using the

Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years dif ...

, both YYYY-MM-DD () and DD/MM/YYYY () format can be used. While the DMY format () is used when writing full Gregorian dates, the MDY format () is also acceptable. All government documents need to be filled up in the YYYY-MM-DD format. A

week A week is a unit of time equal to seven days. It is the standard time period used for short cycles of days in most parts of the world. The days are often used to indicate common work days and rest days, as well as days of worship. Weeks are ofte ...

starts on a

Sunday Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. In most Western countries, Sunday is a day of rest and a part of the weekend. It is often considered the first day of the week. For most observant adherents of Christianity, Sunday ...

() and ends on a

Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. No later than the 2nd century, the Romans named Saturday ("Saturn's Day") for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's na ...

().

Nepali months and days

Months

The names of months in the Vikram Samvat in Nepali with their roughly corresponding Gregorian months are given below.

Days

The names of days in Nepali alongside their corresponding English days are given below:

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"). For different opinions on represent ...

() is widely used in daily life, written communication, and is used in spoken language. The

24-hour notation The modern 24-hour clock, popularly referred to in the United States as military time, 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) pas ...

() is used only in rare situations where there would be widespread ambiguity. Examples include plane departure and landing timings. A colon is widely used to separate hours, minutes and seconds (e.g., 14:39:16).

References

{{Asia topic, Date and time notation in

Date and time representation

External links

Nepali to English Date Converter