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spork_cite_to_yyyymmdd: changes 'date = Month DD, YYYY' or 'date = DD Month YYYY' to 'date = YYYY-MM-DD' MOSNUM dates.js – a comprehensive tool maintained by User:Ohconfucius based on scripts written by User:Lightmouse which can help make all date formats (dmy and mdy) consistent, whilst removing common errors and ambiguous date formats; it ...
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.
<date formatting style> controls the date format in which the result is to be emitted. Recognized values for the second parameter are: DMY gives d mmmm yyyy (e.g. 31 May 2007). This is the default format. MDY gives mmmm d, yyyy (e.g. May 31, 2007) YMD gives yyyy mmmm d (e.g. 2007 May 31) ISO gives an ISO 8601 style yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2007-05-31)
The simplest way to format sortable dates in a table is to use the {{Date table sorting}} template. A redirect: {} It can be used with many date formats mixed together. Note the many formats used here. See Template:Date table sorting for more info. See example tables below. They all sort correctly.
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 ...
The YYYY-MM-DD layout is the only common format that can provide this. [15] Sorting other date representations involves some parsing of the date strings. This also works when a time in 24-hour format is included after the date, as long as all times are understood to be in the same time zone.
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).
They have done this by energetically revising date formats other than the YYYY-MM-DD format to that format. Doing so destroys the evidence that many individual editors prefer a different format, and creates incorrectly the impression that many editors have chosen the YYYY-MM-DD format. And then, of course, editors such as OrangeDog (and some ...