text_combined: date formats hello query different ways dates expressed different languages whether constraints apply relation register eg formal informal etc genre magazine newspaper personal vs business letter etc historical instrumental format calendars nationality etc initial impressions following far english speaking world goes britain variety ways dates expressed writing including day month year dayordinal month year month day year month dayordinal year interestingly variety found numerical form day month year expected note separators vary common slash others dash period blank space formats words used month slot spelled days years expressed numbers variations include use preceding ordinal day numbers sometimes one find different formats used different parts publication eg header report newspaper seems contrast usa month day year seems predominate whatever situation even expressed numerically 1 7 95 normally read americans seventh day month january whereas british would take mean first day month july 6 month difference apparently americans ones adopt month day year someone told old format came result fact looking today date one would look calendar first current month year taken granted ideas norm languages dialects etc thanks advance tony tony berber sardinha tony1 liverpool ac uk aelsu fax 4451 7942739 university liverpool po box 147 http www liv ac uk liverpool l69 3bx tony1 homepage html uk