Wikipedia:Overview of date formatting guidelines: Difference between revisions

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*'''Year–month–day''' (YMD) format—e.g., {{xt|{{#time:Y-m-d}}}} (also called the "all-numeric" format; used only in places where space is limited such as references and some tables and infoboxes, but not in article text proper).

Which format should be used in a particular situation is controlled by the (somewhat confusing) interaction between three sub-provisions of WPMOS:DATEFORMAT. The priority among these provisions can be summarised as follows:

#'''Consistency ([[MOS:DATEUNIFY]]):''' Each article should use either DMY or MDY consistently, ''except'' that in references, access/archive dates (and in some cases publication dates) may use YMD.