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date format on Swedish residence permit

English translation: day/month/year

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Swedish term or phrase:date format on Swedish residence permit
English translation:day/month/year
Entered by: Heather Howey

01:13 Feb 21, 2020
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Other / Immigration
Swedish term or phrase: date format on Swedish residence permit
On an uppehållstillstånd (issued by Skatteverket), the dates are written as, e.g.,
18-05-17

I *think* that's supposed to mean 18 May 2017.

And not 17 May 2018.

Am I right?
Heather Howey
Canada
Local time: 11:07
day/month/year
Explanation:
Yes, 18th of May, 2017.
Selected response from:

Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 08:07
Grading comment
Thanks everyone for your comments, and especially Deane for strong evidence in the form of his own PUT! So in the end I called Skatteverket, discovered I was wrong - PUTs (or UTs) are not issued by Skatteverket, but rather by Migrationsverket - and then called Migrationsverket, which confirmed that they do use the format DD-MM-YY. (Skatteverket explained THEY never do; only the Sw standard YYYY-MM-DD). Thanks Sven for your reference, though I could not find anything specifically about date format on it. My take-away the is: if a Skatteverket document, Little-endian; if a Migrationsverket document, Big-endian.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2day/month/year
Michele Fauble
417 May 2018
Matt Bibby
Summary of reference entries provided
Tania McConaghy

Discussion entries: 3





  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
day/month/year


Explanation:
Yes, 18th of May, 2017.

Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 08:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 25
Grading comment
Thanks everyone for your comments, and especially Deane for strong evidence in the form of his own PUT! So in the end I called Skatteverket, discovered I was wrong - PUTs (or UTs) are not issued by Skatteverket, but rather by Migrationsverket - and then called Migrationsverket, which confirmed that they do use the format DD-MM-YY. (Skatteverket explained THEY never do; only the Sw standard YYYY-MM-DD). Thanks Sven for your reference, though I could not find anything specifically about date format on it. My take-away the is: if a Skatteverket document, Little-endian; if a Migrationsverket document, Big-endian.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tania McConaghy: I don't think SKV would use that format, though it is used on some (imported) food packaging in SW
3 hrs
agree  Deane Goltermann: My PUT card has my birthday (which I am quite sure of) as date-month-year. but I almost never use 'of Month' except occasionally in running text. 18 May 2017. And this is backward from my personal ID# (SS#).
4 hrs
agree  Christopher Schröder: Normally the other way round in Swe but it seems they use a more international format on residence permits these days judging from Google images
10 hrs
agree  Sven Petersson: See https://www.ekobrottsmyndigheten.se/Documents/Brottsförebygg...
5 days
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
17 May 2018


Explanation:
I'm pretty sure it's exactly the opposite to what the other responder wrote. The standard Swedish format is Year Month Day.

Matt Bibby
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tim Kynerd: I'm inclined to agree, especially as it's written with hyphens, but it is ambiguous and in Sweden it would usually be written with a four-digit year.
1 hr
agree  Tania McConaghy
1 hr
disagree  Deane Goltermann: Looking at my PUT card says this is incorrect
2 hrs
disagree  Sven Petersson: See https://www.ekobrottsmyndigheten.se/Documents/Brottsförebygg...
5 days
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Reference comments


7 hrs
Reference

Reference information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Swed...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2020-02-21 08:20:37 GMT)
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https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datum

Tania McConaghy
Sweden
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
Note to reference poster
Asker: Good ref, thanks Tania!

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