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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.
By default YYYY-MM-DD format becomes month-day-year format and DD-MM-YYYY format becomes day-month-year while other formats remain in the order they are input. Abbreviated months are accepted and are abbreviated in the output. Capitalisation and comma mistakes are corrected.
Thousands of articles have a mix of dmy and mdy date formats which need to be unified into one format or another. Many articles with linked dates require cleanup to remove the links and standardize the dates to a single format (either day month or month day, but not a mixture of both).
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 ...
In communications messages, a date-time group (DTG) is a set of characters, usually in a prescribed format, used to express the year, the month, the day of the month, the hour of the day, the minute of the hour, and the time zone, if different from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Day–month–year (DMY) format—e.g., 12 January 2025 or 12 Jan 2025; 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 ...
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Linking a date to date content is not only useful for accessing that content, but also for the backlink: to find pages linking to a particular year, month or day. This gives us a list of events (and subjects related to events) that happened in (or are at least related to) that time period.