Date formats

Human readable date formats

It is recommended to use British English standard for human readable date formats, since it is used by most of the world, and easily understandable.

• 6 Aug 2019
• 6 August 2019
• Wednesday, 6 August 2019

For more, see:

• How to write the date correctly (IELTS)
• How to Write Dates Correctly in English (Grammarly)
• Overview of date formatting guidelines (Wikipedia)

Dates represented by numbers

When dates are represented with numbers they can be interpreted in different ways. ISO 8601 tackles this uncertainty by setting out an internationally agreed way to represent dates this way:

YYYY-MM-DD resulting in "2023-02-23"

ISO 8601 Date and time format.