Dates and Times

Dates and Times

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Date Formatting

Dates should be written in the form "14th February 2006".

• No internal punctuation is necessary

• Unless the day of the week is included, in which case the day is followed by a comma: "Tuesday, 14th February 2006"

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Abbreviated Years

Abbreviated years need an apostrophe to indicate the missing numbers:

• Example: "I was born in the '90s"

• This is to distinguish dates from age brackets, e.g. "She was in her 60s"

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Time Periods

When referring to a period of time, use the word "to" rather than a dash:

• Correct: "from 1837 to 1901"

• Incorrect: "from 1837–1901"

• Also, use 'and' with 'between': "between 1837 and 2006"

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Times of Day

When referring to times of day, please use the format:

• 11:25, 3:30pm, 6:45am etc.

• Using a colon not a full stop

• If "o'clock" is included in their speech, this should be transcribed as "I'm going to bed at 10 o'clock"

• Please don't mix time styles when in close vicinity to one another

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Examples

Dates:

• 25th December 2023

• Monday, 1st January 2024

• Born in the '80s (not 80's for decades)

• She's in her 60s (age bracket)

Times:

• 9:15am

• 2:30pm

• 11 o'clock

Periods:

• From 1990 to 1995

• Between 2020 and 2023