If an Australian writes February 3, 2019 as 03/02/2019, but an American writes the same date as 02/03/2019, whos right? The international standard recommends writing the date as year, then month, then the day: YYYY-MM-DD. So if both the Australian and American used this, they would both write the date as 2019-02-03.

What is the professional way to write the date?

In formal writing, always write the date in full when it is part of a sentence. This usually involves giving the day of the month, the month, and the year: The meeting will take place on April 21, 2019. Note that the year follows after a comma.

How do you write January 2021?

So 1/12/2021 is January 12th, 2021. And notice how the date is written: 12th. If you say this date out loud youll say: “January twelfth, twenty twenty-one.”