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Dates in article body text [h] should all use the same format: She fell ill on 25 June 2005 and died on 28 June, not She fell ill on 25 June 2005 and died on June 28. Publication dates in an article's citations should all use the same format, which may be:
P formatting Excel style cell format specification; F record Use: Format If P record(s) are present, follows them. Possible fields: X column column (one based) Y row row (one based) C column column (one based) R row row (one based) F format Cell/row/column format The format of format is ch1 digits ch2 ch1 is D default C currency E exponent F ...
The dates before the edit were incorrect; YYYY-MM-DD format is not suitable for running text. Of course, the dates after the edit were incorrect on at least two points. --Gerry Ashton 00:48, 7 October 2008 (UTC) Now take a look at this edit. Some editor's "Date audit, script-assisted; see mosnum and fix date formats" changed [[1978-02-22]] to ...
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.
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 ...
Note that, according to MOS:DATEUNIFY, dates in citations can be a different format from dates in the text as long as the citation date format is consistent and follows the rules in MOS:DATEUNIFY, even when a dates template specifies a specific article style. Automated date formatting tools generally do not account for this potential difference.
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Formatting and other purely typographical elements of quoted text [o] should be adapted to English Wikipedia's conventions without comment, provided that doing so will not change or obscure meaning or intent of the text. These are alterations which make no difference when the text is read aloud, for example: