Date and time notation in South Africa

Date and time notation in South Africa describes methods of expressing date and time used South Africa.

Date
South Africa signed up to use ISO 8601 for date and time representation through national standard ARP 010:1989 in 1998 A.D. The most recent South African Bureau of Standards standard SANS 8601:2009 "... is the identical implementation of ISO 8601:2004, and is adopted with the permission of the International Organization for Standardization" and was reviewed in 2016.

No distinction is made by the SANS 8601 standard between any of the 11 official languages.

The week is from Sunday until Saturday. The first week of the year contains January 1, when there a new year begins.

Time
The 24-hour notation in hour-minute(s) order used a colon as a separator (June 29, 2024).