What is the correct way to type in the day of the week and the date?

Answer 1

There are three ways to type out the correct date:

• February 21, 2008
• 2/21/08
• 21/2/08

Put the full date in letters, but some applications or documents, etc., will use only numbers. The correct way is the month first, the day and the year.

Answer 2

The correct way to type the day of the week and the date is by formatting it as follows: [Day of the week, abbreviated] [Date, in numerical format]. For example, "Mon, Nov 15" would represent Monday, November 15.

Answer 3

I think the one that is most clear for US readers is: Friday, June 8, 2012 for example.

Answer

It varies from place to place. Every major newspaper I've seen in the past 40 years follows this example: Friday, June 8, 2012. In many places, the date goes before the month, e.g. Friday 8 June 2012. I think that makes a lot more sense since it progresses from the smallest unit (the day) to the largest (the year). I think it would make even more sense to arrange it 2012 June 8 Friday, so that it would jive with our numbering system, which has the most significant digit on the left and the least significant digit on the right.

Dates that use numbers to represent months vary from place to place, too. The U. S. arranges the numbers month/day/year, while Europe arranges them day/month/year. I think it was Microsoft I first saw differentiating between the styles by saying that it would interpret short dates with slashes as month/day/year and short dates with dashes or hyphens as day-month-year.

Adding a zero before a single-digit month and/or day is not only a style preference for some but also a security issue, since it makes it harder for someone to change a date of a document or a check.

Answer 4

Days of the week:

1. Monday
2. Tuesday
3. Wednesday
4. Thursday
5. Friday
6. Saturday
7. Sunday

Months:

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September
10. October
11. November
12. December

Examples:

We meet on the third Sunday of June, but the rest of the year we meet on the second Wednesday each month.

On Monday, August 3rd, I had a traffic accident.

My mother's birthday is June 3; my dad's is June 4. My sister's birthday is July 3, and mine is July 4.

On the 1st instant of April, in 1888, the city had an early spring.