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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.
(For example, for fractions written in horizontal format, adding spaces to a fraction like 123456/127 would cause it to be misread as 123 456 / 127 or 1 23456 / 127 .) Markup: Templates {{ val }} or {{ gaps }} may be used to produce this formatting.
Shortened footnotes target full citations using the year specified in this parameter. A lowercase letter may be suffixed to the year to disambiguate {} links to multiple works by the same author in the same year, unless the date is formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. In the latter case, year or ref is required to disambiguate the link targets.
Do not use numbers to express a month, except in full ISO 8601 format, which always includes the year. Always express a month as a whole word (eg "February") to avoid ambiguity. Please note that in the ISO 8601 format, a leading zero is always added to single-digit months and days.
Wikipedia's guidelines for formatting dates (MOS:DATEFORMAT) set out the three date formats acceptable for use in Wikipedia articles, namely: 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;
Wikipedia's manual of style for dates and numbers encourages consistency in formats used. As there are two permissible date formats used in running text in Wikipedia, articles will belong to one or other category. Thousands of articles have a mix of dmy and mdy date formats which need to be unified into one format or another.
Companies in Europe often use year, week number, and day for planning purposes. So, for example, an event in a project can happen on w43 (week 43) or w43-1 (Monday, week 43) or, if the year needs to be indicated, on w0643 (the year 2006, week 43; i.e., Monday 23 October–Sunday 29 October 2006). An ISO week-numbering year has 52 or 53 full ...
Converts dates into a format used on Wikipedia Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status date 1 Date to be formatted Example Jan 1, 2007 Date suggested format 2 Controls the date format for the result Default DMY Example MDY String suggested The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Date/doc. (edit | history) Editors can experiment in this template's ...