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In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. January 8, 2025) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (6:45 pm).
If an article contains Julian calendar dates after 4 October 1582 (as in the October Revolution), or if a start-of-year date other than 1 January was in force in the place being discussed, or both, a footnote should be provided on the first usage, explaining the calendar usage adopted for the article. The calendar usage should be compatible ...
This style is common in American English. The comma is used to avoid confusing consecutive numbers: December 19 1941. Most style manuals, including The Chicago Manual of Style [17] and the AP Stylebook, [18] also recommend that the year be treated as a parenthetical, requiring a second comma after it: "Feb. 14, 1987, was the target date."
One comma between the day and year, and one comma after the year (unless some other puncutation follows the year). See Chicago Manual of Style, Section 6.46: "In the month-day-year style of dates, the style most commonly used in the United States and hence now recommended by Chicago, commas are used both before and after the year.
The difference between an Oxford comma and a regular comma is that an Oxford comma refers to the final comma in a series that would come before the last conjunction of a sentence. In contrast, a ...
Basically, "," inside brackets = use comma when user has setting to US Date Format, otherwise just do date no "," (regular date) = print as normal (aka date used as adjective or not in a sentence, so no comma regardless of date format) //MrD9 22:33, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
The comma-free approach is often used with partial quotations: The report observed "a 45% reduction in transmission rate". A comma is required when it would be present in the same construction if none of the material were a quotation: In Margaret Mead's view, "we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities" to enrich our culture.
The Canadian government style manual uses a comma after the year for dates in month-day-year order, e.g. January 12, 1972, was a cold day, but not after the year for dates in day-month-year order, e.g. 12 January 1972 was a cold day. Americans would normally use the former and British the latter.RockyMtnGuy 00:18, 12 February 2009 (UTC)