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For instance, depending on the order style, the abbreviated date "01/11/06" can be interpreted as "1 November 2006" for DMY, "January 11, 2006" for MDY, and "2001 November 6" for YMD. The ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD (2025-03-01) is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations. Many countries have adopted it as their ...
Besides that, in Hungary the big-endian year-month-day order has been traditionally used. In 1995, also in Germany, the traditional notation was replaced in the DIN 5008 standard, which defines common typographic conventions, with the ISO 8601 notation (e.g., "1991-12-31"), and is becoming the prescribed date format in Germany since 1996-05-01.
Month–day–year (MDY) format—e.g., January 12, 2025 or Jan 12, 2025; Year–month–day (YMD) format—e.g., 2025-01-12 (also called the "all-numeric" format; used only where space is limited, such as in references and some tables and infoboxes, but not in article text proper). The appropriate format for a particular situation is ...
The calendar that is used for Date format. The order in which the year, month, and day are represented. (Year-month-day, day-month-year, and month-day-year are the common combinations.) How weeks are identified (see seven-day week) Whether written months are identified by name, by number (1–12), or by Roman numeral (I-XII).
The date of a Web page, PDF, etc. with no visible date can sometimes be established by searching the page source or document code for a created or updated date; a comment for editors such as date=2021-12-25<!--date from page source-->|orig-date=Original date 2011-01-01 can be added.
Automatic date formatting: Citation Style 1 and 2 templates, including this template, automatically render dates in all date parameters (such as |date=, |publication-date=, |access-date=, |archive-date=, etc.) except for |orig-date= in the style specified by the article's {{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}} template. See those templates ...
France most commonly records the date using the day-month-year order with an oblique stroke or slash (”/”) as the separator with numerical values, for example, 31/12/1992. The 24-hour clock is used to express time, using the lowercase letter "h" as the separator in between hours and minutes, for example, 14 h 05.
The European date format is date month year, as opposed to the US format which swaps the date and month (see example below). Following Wikipedia preferences, we also do not put a comma between the date and month, and the year. For example: 9 May 1951 instead of May 9 1951; 9 May 1951 instead of 9 May, 1951; 9 May instead of May 9th