Date and time notation in Colombia

There are several forms for date and time notation in Colombia.

Date

In Colombia, the standard dd/mm/yyyy is widely used, also Roman numbers are commonly used to represent the month as in:

31/XII/2008

Also long date format is used, example:

31 de diciembre de 2008 (31 December 2008)

Time

Colombia uses a 12-hour format for clocks, but a format specifying the place of the sun is more commonly used for informal communication. This is because there are no time seasons, so that sunset and dawn are at approximately the same time every day. For example:

Time Span/Example	Media Noche (Midnight)	Madrugada (Early Morning)	Mañana (Morning)	Medio Día (Noon)	Tarde (Afternoon)	Noche(Night)
Time Span	12:00 am – 12:59 am	1 am - 5:59 am	6:00 am – 11:59 am	12:00 pm – 12:59 pm	1:00 pm – 6:59 pm	7:00 pm – 11:59 pm
Example	Media noche	3:20 de la madrugada	8:25 de la mañana	Medio día	6:30 de la tarde	7:30 de la noche

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Dependencies and other territories	Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands US Virgin Islands

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