New Zealanders typically write the date in the little-endian sequence, as in the United Kingdom and Australia: The month–day–year order (February 8, 2025) is sometimes used, usually informally in the mastheads of magazines, schools, newspapers,[2] advertisements, video games, news, and TV shows.
However, similar to the UK, the MDY in numeric-only form (02/08/2025) is never used as it can be easily confused for the DMY format.
The New Zealand Government readability guidelines recommend writing showing the time in a 12-hour format,[3] although the 24-hour clock (03:57) can be used in technical fields such as military, aviation, computing, navigation, transportation and the sciences.
[citation needed] The before noon/after noon qualifier is usually written as "am" or "pm".
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