How do you write dates?

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1. Depends on the country I’m or the person I’m writing too.

2. Month/day/year so today is July 14, 2022 or 7/14/22

3. Month, day, year

4. Personally, as often as possible, I go with YYYY-MM-DD.

   But more common is MM/DD/YY

5. Today is July 14, 2022. Or 7/14/2022.

   I have to stop and think when writing dates for things related to travel and work in Europe. I know to switch it when needed but the format above is natural.

6. It depends. Personally, in my notes or something similar, I use 14 July 2022. For US based communication, I use July 14, 2022. For comms to Europe or Asia I use 14 July 2022

7. I like to use yyyy-mm-dd with file names and data at work, so the alphabetic sort matches a chronological sort, but in communications and speech I use mm/dd/yy

8. Either month, day, year, or if I need easy digital sorting, year, month, day.

   If I’m working internationally, I just avoid numeric abbreviations for the month. Anything else you need to ask for clarification.

9. Almost always (M)M/(D)D/YY. Sometimes I’ll do MM/(D)D/YYYY on more official documents, like the documents to buy my house or car, for example. I also have a different date convention if I’m putting a date in a document/folder title on the computer, which is YYYYMMDD.

10. Same way I’d speak the date. Month, day, year.

11. July 14 2022 when at work, as I work with a lot of Europeans.
    07/14/22 or 7.14.22 when not at work.

12. Electronic file names: YY-MM-DD

    Writing or casual usage: MM/DD/YY

13. either as MM/DD/YYYY or ## MM #### (14 JUN 2022) if I have little faith in the reading comprehension skills or whatever organization I’m writing the date for

14. MM/DD/YY

    That’s pretty standard here.

    Any time someone does Day/Month/Year I assume they’re not American

15. DD-MMM-YYYY *eg* 14-JUL-2022 on mail coming in and MM/DD/YYYY *eg* 07/14/2022 everywhere else.

16. MM/DD/YYYY

17. MM/DD/YY at home. DDMmmYY (14Jul22) at work.

18. I always write the word for the month for clarity, but I switch randomly between *2022 July 14* (large to small) and *14 July 2022* (small to large)

19. I say day month year, but writing it depends on why I’m writing it.

20. Month, day, year.

21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States

    As with many other things we get blamed for, we got it from the Brits.

    I use what I’m asked for, MM/DD/YYYY for handwritten, or for my own data management YYYY-MM-DD