Date Format for Translation

[Vana 3]

Hello,

We are translating my husbands birth certificate/record.  It has many dates on it including his birthday, parents bday, siblings bday, the date when he lived at his last address, the date it was made, the valid dates, etc.  All of the dates are formatted like this 01.03.2021 - so DD.MM.YYYY.  When we translate it should we do MM/DD/YYYY (change the . to / and rearrange to US standards)?  Or keep it as is (DD.MM.YYYY)?  Or change it to Mar 01, 2021 to make it super clear?

 

Some of the dates it is obvious which is the month and day, others are not so clear.  

 

Thanks!

 

 

[K1visaHopeful 2,895]

Make it super clear. 

Use words. 

[Mike E 11,742]

The world standard is YYYY-MM-DD. This is unambiguous except to those who are unaware of this standard.  

Edited April 10, 2022 by Mike E

[mytruelove18 608]

4 hours ago, Vana said:

Hello,

We are translating my husbands birth certificate/record.  It has many dates on it including his birthday, parents bday, siblings bday, the date when he lived at his last address, the date it was made, the valid dates, etc.  All of the dates are formatted like this 01.03.2021 - so DD.MM.YYYY.  When we translate it should we do MM/DD/YYYY (change the . to / and rearrange to US standards)?  Or keep it as is (DD.MM.YYYY)?  Or change it to Mar 01, 2021 to make it super clear?

 

Some of the dates it is obvious which is the month and day, others are not so clear.  

 

Thanks!

 

 

I translate all my documents myself and when i translate i use US standar and never i had not problems,

my country use dd/mm/yyyy and i translate to mm/dd/yyyy , i had not issue doing that

[arken 4,197]

1 hour ago, Vana said:

Or change it to Mar 01, 2021 to make it super clear?

This is the best way to go to avoid any confusion. 

[JeanneAdil 6,698]

trying to remember exact dates but a Vj member thought US documents were printed with wrong birthdate as his country did day then month and we do month then day

embassies know month then date 

wish they did YYYY/MM/DD