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This template returns the English abbreviation (between "Jan" and "Dec") of the month whose number is in parameter. Alternatively, the English name or abbreviation (in any letter case) can be provided.
This template returns the cyclic integer month number (between 1 and 12) of the month whose real number is in parameter. Alternatively, the month can be given with its English name (complete or abbreviated to 3 characters, with capitals or small letters).
This template returns the name of the month whose number is in parameter. Alternatively, the English month name or abbreviation (with any letter case) can be given.
[j] For consistency, avoid abbreviated year ranges when they would be used alongside non-abbreviated ranges within an article (or related pages, if in titles). Never use abbreviated years for ranges across centuries ( 1999–2000 , not 1999–00 ) or for years from the first millennium ( 886–887 , not 886–87 ).
Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month number and year in left-to-right writing direction) in Afar, French and Somali ("d/m/yy" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d format (Day first, month number, and year in right-to-left writing direction) in Arabic language.
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates.The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year.
From January 1999 there are separate articles about months. For the first few years they seem to be forks of the sections concerned in the year articles. The contents of these sections can better be merged into the month article, after which the month articles can be transcluded in the year articles.
This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "1/21/24" or "01/21/2024") and the expanded form (e.g., "January 21, 2024"—usually spoken with the year as a cardinal number and the day as an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first, twenty twenty-four"), with the historical rationale that the year was often of lesser ...