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Yuki's Unambiguous Time-Keeping Notation

Version 0.9.1

Yuki's Unambiguous Time-Keeping Notation is largely compatible with modern date formats, but uses different Unicode characters to unambiguously differentiate date and time components, while being easy to read given prior knowledge of Western time measurement. Hence, ISO 8601-style ordering and formatting is recommended, but optional.

Example

2001-02-03 04:05:06 (in ISO 8601 format) can be written as 2001.โ…ก.โ‘ข;๐Ÿ•“05แตƒ06.789.

Component separators

Can be anything, including space, dash, slash, dots, colons, semi-colons, commas, vertical bars, nothing at all, or any combination thereof.

Date

Years

Written as Western Arabic numerals. The century can be omitted if it can be inferred from context.

Months

Written as Roman numerals 1 to 12, corresponding to the month number.

โ…  โ…ก โ…ข โ…ฃ โ…ค โ…ฅ โ…ฆ โ…ง โ…จ โ…ฉ โ…ช โ…ซ

โ…ฐ โ…ฑ โ…ฒ โ…ณ โ…ด โ…ต โ…ถ โ…ท โ…ธ โ…น โ…บ โ…ป

Days

Written as circled numerals. Can also be Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses.

โ“ช โ‘  โ‘ก โ‘ข โ‘ฃ โ‘ค โ‘ฅ
โ‘ฆ โ‘ง โ‘จ โ‘ฉ โ‘ช โ‘ซ โ‘ฌ
โ‘ญ โ‘ฎ โ‘ฏ โ‘ฐ โ‘ฑ โ‘ฒ โ‘ณ
ใ‰‘ ใ‰’ ใ‰“ ใ‰” ใ‰• ใ‰– ใ‰—
ใ‰˜ ใ‰™ ใ‰š ใ‰›

โ“ช can be specified to mean the last day of the previous month.

Weekdays

Written as black circled numerals.

โ“ฟ โถ โท โธ โน โบ โป โผ 
โ“ฟ, โผSunday
โถMonday
โทTuesday
โธWednesday
โนThursday
โบFriday
โปSaturday

Weeks

With no day specified, a subscript numeral can be used to specify a number of weeks.

Ex. 2023โ…ฉโบ3 is the 3rd Friday of the month.

With a w specifier and no month specified, it can be used as an ISO week number.

Ex.: โบw50 is Friday of Week 50.

Ex.: 2023w50 is Week 50 of 2023.

Ex.: 2023โ…ฉ0 is the last week of September 2023, before the first week of October.

Time

Hours and minutes

Written using clock emoji, using 30-minute intervals.

12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
:00๐Ÿ•›๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ•‘๐Ÿ•’๐Ÿ•“๐Ÿ•”๐Ÿ••๐Ÿ•–๐Ÿ•—๐Ÿ•˜๐Ÿ•™๐Ÿ•š
:30๐Ÿ•ง๐Ÿ•œ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ•ž๐Ÿ•Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐Ÿ•ก๐Ÿ•ข๐Ÿ•ฃ๐Ÿ•ค๐Ÿ•ฅ๐Ÿ•ฆ

แตƒ and แต– are used after the appropriate symbols for respectively AM and PM. Optionally, a number of minutes (counted from the top of the hour) can be specified in superscript before the AM/PM symbol.

Ex.: 16:59 would be written as ๐Ÿ•Ÿ59แต–.

Ex.: 04:30 am can be written as ๐Ÿ•Ÿแตƒ.

Seconds

*to be specified*

Bugs and criticisms

  • Some characters may be hard to read, or look inconsistent. Please use plain ISO 8601.
date.txt ยท Last modified: 2025/02/02 18:49 by Yuki