What is today’s date?
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Today’s date in numbers
If you want to correctly write today’s date, keep in mind that there are two ways to write a date:
1) Utilizing entirely numbers and
2) Utilizing a combination of words and numbers
For writing today’s date, there are also two standards:
1) The American English standard [month-day-year]
2) The British English standard [day-month-year]
Writing the date including weekday
The weekday constantly comes first and is isolated from the rest by a comma, below are examples:
1) Weekday, Month Date [date in digits] 2021 [American]
2) Weekday, Date [date in digits] Month 2021 [British]
(Take into consideration that there is no comma between the date and the year).
Various standards can generate confusion – If you write the date with solely digits it can readily lead to misconception.
For instance, the date 11/04/2021 can be either:
November 4, 2021 (American interpretation) or April 11, 2021 (British interpretation)
This may be a good reason why it is better to write the name of the month.
Below are abbreviations for the day of the Week:
Sun. – Sunday
Mon. – Monday
Tue. or Tues. – Tuesday
Wed. – Wednesday
Thu. – Thursday
Fri. – Friday
Sat. – Saturday
Below are abbreviations for Months:
Jan. – January
Feb. – February
Mar. – March
Apr. – April
May – May
Jun. – June
Jul. – July
Aug. – August
Sep. – September
Oct. – October
Nov. – November
Dec. – December
You can separate by using a hyphen (-), a slash (/), or a dot (.) when writing the date by numbers only. Below are examples:
11-21-2021
11/21/2021
11.21.2021
The date can be written with or without leading zeros. For instance:
11/06/2021 or 11/6/2021
How do week numbers work?
Depending on which part of the world you are from week numbers can differ a bit and it may be a little confusing.
When is week number 1? [In accordance with ISO or the International Organization for Standardization]
If the 1st of January falls on Monday – Thursday, then the week of 1 January is the first week.
If the 1st of January falls on a Friday – Sunday, then the 1st of January is regarded to be part of the last week of the last year, and the first week will begin on the 1st Monday after the 1st of January.
In a year, the highest week number is either 52 or 53.
Which is the first day of the week?
In the majority of countries, they utilize the ISO standard, and the first day of the week is always a Monday and the last day is always a Sunday.
– ISO-8601 / week starts with Monday in the European Union and the majority of the other European countries, most of the Asian countries, and Oceania;
– Western traditional / week starts with Sunday in the United States, Canada, Iceland, Portugal, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, the Philippines, and most of Latin America;
– Middle Eastern/week starts with Saturday in the majority of the Middle East countries.