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Core Netiquette Rules For Writing Dates
Few
who constantly misspell or misrepresent dates and times believe they are doing
so, even though some will depict date and times differently quite often—sometimes
from one message to the next.
Just
as with time, what can most commonly go wrong with misspelled (or incorrectly formatted)
dates are missed appointments, payments, travel arrangements, and much more. Part
of this problem also can be attributed to not providing full dates such as, The game will be Monday, May 1 instead of The game will be Monday. Why the emphasis here? If the sender
actually has misrepresented the day of the week for whatever reason, the
additional data might be a flag to the recipient to confirm the date. This
works conversely as well: The game will
be on Monday, May 1; The game will be on May 1—or even worse, The game will be on the first of the month.
Do not use the ordinal form of dates.
Correct, May 6; incorrect, May 6th.
The
following formats are acceptable for depicting dates. It should be noted that
many countries differ from the United States for their respective date
representations. Specifically, these instances can easily be found online.
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Fomat
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Example
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MMMM D,
YYYY
Full month
name, numeric day, comma, full year
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October
16, 1951
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D MMM YYYY
Numeric
day, short month name, full year
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8 Jan 1965
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MMM D,
YYYY
Short
month name, numeric day, comma, full year
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Dec 19,
1996
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YYYY-MM-DD
Four digit
year, dash, two digits month, dash, two digits day
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1999-02-22
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D MMMM
YYYY
Numeric
day, full month name, full year
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17 July,
1918
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Netiquette assumes that consistency be
applied within bodies of email text. The following are a few more common
suggestions.[JL1]
1)
Dates
in quotes should not be changed.
2)
When
changing appointment times, both the originally and newly scheduled times need
to be shown.
3)
Approximate
dates should be preceded by c. or circa and a year.
4)
Ranges
in dates, as in résumés, should include the earliest and last, separated by a
spaced hyphen or en dash (–).
5)
Decades
should be represented by a simple plural, without apostrophes.
Incorrect: 1990’s or 1990ies
Correct: 1990s
6)
AD
(or CE) and BC are capitalized, with no periods.
7)
The
date format used in the United States is MM/DD/YYYY. Most other major countries
use date exceptions, including China, Korea, and Japan (using year, month,
day). Others exceptions include Russia, most of Europe, and most of South
America, which use day, month, year.
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