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The presence of the DD/ MM/ YY (most of the world) and MM/ DD/ YY (American) formats often results in misinterpretation. The YYYY- MM- DD format is the only method of writing a numeric date in Canada that allows unambiguous interpretation, and the only officially recommended format. The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format.

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The Government of Canada recommends that all-numeric dates in both English and French use the YYYY- MM- DD format codified in ISO 8601. When writing a date for administrative purposes (such as to date a document), one can write the date with or without the article. The article le is required in prose except when including the day of the week in a date. The first day of the month is written with an ordinal indicator: le 1 er juillet 2017. The standard all-numeric date format is common between English and French:

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informal: '… Thursday, January seventh, twenty sixteen …'įrench usage consistently places the day first when writing the full date.

'… Thursday, the seventh of January, two thousand and sixteen …'.

'… on this the seventh day of January, two thousand and sixteen …'.

The date is sometimes written out in words, especially in formal documents such as contracts and invitations, following spoken forms: Documents with an international audience, including the Canadian passport, use the day-month-year format. Writing the date in this form is also useful for bilingual comprehension, as it matches the French sequence of writing the date.

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Even in the United States, where the month-day-year sequence is even more prevalent, the Chicago Manual of Style recommends the day-month-year format for material that requires many full dates, since it does not require commas and has wider international recognition. The month-day-year sequence is the most common method of writing the full date in English, but formal letters, academic papers, and reports often prefer the day-month-year sequence. Thursday, 7 January 2016 or Thursday, January 7, 2016.For example, the seventh day of January 2016 can be written as: The date can be written either with the day or the month first in Canadian English, optionally with the day of the week.

The government endorses all these forms when using words, but recommends only the ISO format for all-numeric dates to avoid error. French speakers consistently write the date with the day first ( le 7 janvier). When writing the full date, English speakers vacillate between the forms inherited from the United Kingdom (day first, 7 January) and United States (month first, January 7), depending on the region and context. Canadian passport stamp from Queenston Bridge, showing the date 8 June 2014

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