Date and Time Insert timestamps and datelines Format (see specifications for options), font name, size, color alignment, background color, padding, margin Day, Date Month Year HH:MM:SS, Day of the Week -- Month Date, Year DD MMM YYYY, DD MMM YYYY -- Day of the Week YYYY.

CNN: Mobile Landing Page

Even bigger savings in terms of confusion forgone would come with an American decision to adopt the more logical European practice of writing the date in the order of day, month, year.

ECONOMIST: Leaders

The right date to make this change is the beginning of the month that contains the year's 100th day: April 1st.

ECONOMIST: A 24-hour day is inefficient