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I'm writing a program and need to know how dates, versions, time, and numbers
are formatted in the Japanese Language

Example (in English)

```

    Version 1.0.0 (Build 0)
    
```

How would that look in Japan?
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Dates, version strings, timestamps and numbers in Japanese. How are they formatted?
Version: バージョン (baajon) Build: ビルド (birudo)

バージョン 1.0.0 ビルド 0

(Source: I'm running Japanese Windows, and verified these guesses by looking
in some About boxes for standard apps.)

The date 2012-05-13 can be displayed as 2012年5月13日. I wouldn't do that in
things like debugging log files for IT people.

Numbers use a period as a decimal separator.

HH:MM:SS time is used. But there are Japanese conventions. For instance a.m.
and p.m. are 午前 (gozen) and 午後 (gogo). 午前7:00～午後8:00 means from 7 in the
morning to 8 at night (note wavy dash used for the range), and 7:00 in the
morning could appear as 午前7時 (gozen schichi ji) or even 朝７時 (asa shichi ji:
"morning seven o'clock").

Separation of digits into groups of three is used, but I would say it is not a
cultural concept in Japan.

In Japanese, the number 10,000 is significant (it is called 万, "man") as are
1000 (千, "sen") and 100 (百, "hyaku"). . Large-ish quantities of money are
sometimes quoted in 万円 (manen) which is comparable to a hundred dollars. The
square of 10,000, one hundred million, also has a special name, 億 (oku). The
cultural concept of "one million bucks" translates to "oku man en".

The average Japanese person doesn't think of numbers in terms of thousand,
million, billion, but people in science, finance, engineering and such operate
in the global information environment so they are probably more used to that.

In some kinds of programs, a "deep" conversion to Japanese might bring in
these concepts. For instance, a column of monetary figures might be labelled
万円 and this would mean that 1.3 in that column understood to to be 13000 yen.
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