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Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#Dates, months and years|guidelines for formatting dates]] ([[MOS:DATEFORMAT]]) set out the three date formats acceptable for use in Wikipedia articles, namely:

*'''Day–month–year''' (DMY) format—e.g., {{xt|{{#time:jCURRENTDAY}} F{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} Y{{CURRENTYEAR}}}} or {{xt|{{#time:jCURRENTDAY}} M{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} Y{{CURRENTYEAR}}}};

*'''Month–day–year''' (MDY) format—e.g., {{xt|{{#time:FCURRENTMONTHNAME}} j{{CURRENTDAY}}, Y{{CURRENTYEAR}}}} or {{xt|{{#time:MCURRENTMONTHABBREV}} j{{CURRENTDAY}}, Y{{CURRENTYEAR}}}};

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

The appropriate format for a particular situation is determined by the (somewhat confusing) interaction between three sub-provisions of MOS:DATEFORMAT. The priority among these provisions can be summarised as follows: