an abbreviated format from the 'Acceptable date formats' table, provided the day and month elements are in the same order as in dates in the article body, or.

the format used in the article body text,.

Publication dates in an article's citations should all use the same format, which may be:.

Dates in article body text should all use the same format: She fell ill on 25 June 2005 and died on 28 June, not She fell ill on 25 June 2005 and died on June 28.

Write 'the year' only where needed for clarity ( About 200 ships arrived in the year 300). Years and days of the month are not normally written in words. Roman numerals are not normally used for dates. except in all-numeric ( yyyy- mm- dd) format, where both month and day should be zero-padded to two digits.ĭo not use separators other than hyphens.ĭo not use dd- mm- yyyy, mm- dd- yyyy or yyyy- dd- mm formats. ĭo not use ordinals ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). Unacceptable date formats (except in external titles and quotes)ĭo not add a dot to an abbreviated month or to the day-of-month. Relative-time expressions are acceptable for very long periods, such as geological epochs: Humans diverged from other primates long ago, but only recently developed state legislatures. For current and future events, use phrases such as as of October 2022 or since the beginning of 2022 to signal the time-dependence of the information use the template in conjunction. Wording can usually be modified to remove the 'now' perspective: not she is the current director but she became director on 1 January 20–present but beginning in 2010 or since 2010. the 'Current events' portal), terms such as now, currently, present, to date, so far, soon, upcoming, ongoing, and recently should usually be avoided in favor of phrases such as during the 2010s, since 2010, and in August 2020. See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch § Relative time references, Wikipedia:Updating information, and Wikipedia:As ofĮxcept on pages that are inherently time-sensitive and updated regularly (e.g.

3.10 Scientific and engineering notation.

2.2.5 Uncertain, incomplete, or approximate dates.

2.2.1.2 Strong national ties to a topic.

2.1 Statements likely to become outdated.

Utime for dates before 1960