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National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
Ongoing maintenance of date formats may one day be carried out by bots on articles already tagged with templates ({{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}}) which help to identify the correct format. Potentially ambiguous dates, using slashes or full stops (6/7/1961, 12/07/1986, 6.7.1961, 12.07.1986) are re-appearing on some thousands of pages ...
If an article uses a template such as {{Use mdy dates}} or {{Use dmy dates}}, then Citation Style 1 and 2 templates automatically render dates (|date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc) in the specified format, regardless of the format they are entered in. (The |cs1-dates= parameter can be used to fine-tune the generated output, see Template ...
Standard format: 1- or 2-digit day, the spelled-out month, and 4-digit year (e.g. 4 February 2023) Civilian format: spelled out month, 1-or 2-digit day, a comma, and the 4-digit year (e.g. February 4, 2023). [12] Date Time Group format, used most often in operation orders. This format uses DDHHMMZMONYY, with DD being the two-digit day, HHMM ...
The default display format is usually set by its initial content if not specifically previously set, so that for example "31/12/2007" or "31 Dec 2007" would default to the cell format of date. Similarly adding a % sign after a numeric value would tag the cell as a percentage cell format. The cell contents are not changed by this format, only ...
References ^ "Date Design Pattern". Microformats Wiki. April 7, 2013. ^ "hCalendar closed issues". Microformats Wiki. August 28, 2009. Specifically rejects supporting the Julian calendar. Notes Do not use with non-Gregorian dates because the resulting hCard hidden date will be false. The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank. When only the month or year of a person's ...
Wikipedia:Date formatting and linking poll; Date preferences screenshot; mw:Manual:Dynamic dates; Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates ; Wikipedia:Date debate; bugzilla:4582 - Use date format preference on unlinked dates
In all articles, either the international date format (“2 February 2008”) or the U.S.-style date format (“February 2, 2008”) may be used, so long as all dates in the article conform to the same format. Articles containing dates in different formats should be copyedited so that all dates have a consistent format, that format being at the ...