---
id: "date_english"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_english"
---

# Date with an English month name (`date_english`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Calendar date written in English with the month name, full or abbreviated, capitalised or in lower case. The day comes first (5 May 2022, 5th May 2022, 5.May.2022, 5-May-2022, 25-Dec-20) or after the month (May 5, 2022; Sept. 5, 2022; Dec 25th 2024). A weekday may come first (Monday, 5 May 2022; Mon, Dec 5, 2022), also before a day-first numeric date (Monday, 25/12/2024).

- Pattern of: `date`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:(?:Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday|[Mm]on|[Tt]ue|[Ww]ed|[Tt]hu|[Ff]ri|[Ss]at|[Ss]un),? )?(?:(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(?:st|nd|rd|th)?(?:\. ?| )(?:[Jj]an(?:uary)?|[Ff]eb(?:ruary)?|[Mm]ar(?:ch)?|[Aa]pr(?:il)?|[Mm]ay|[Jj]une?|[Jj]uly?|[Aa]ug(?:ust)?|[Ss]ep(?:t|tember)?|[Oo]ct(?:ober)?|[Nn]ov(?:ember)?|[Dd]ec(?:ember)?)(?:\. ?|,? )\d{4}|(?:[Jj]an(?:uary)?|[Ff]eb(?:ruary)?|[Mm]ar(?:ch)?|[Aa]pr(?:il)?|[Mm]ay|[Jj]une?|[Jj]uly?|[Aa]ug(?:ust)?|[Ss]ep(?:t|tember)?|[Oo]ct(?:ober)?|[Nn]ov(?:ember)?|[Dd]ec(?:ember)?)\.? (?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(?:st|nd|rd|th)?,? \d{4})|(?:Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday|Saturday|Sunday|[Mm]on|[Tt]ue|[Ww]ed|[Tt]hu|[Ff]ri|[Ss]at|[Ss]un),? (?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])/(?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2])/\d{4}|(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])-(?:[Jj]an(?:uary)?|[Ff]eb(?:ruary)?|[Mm]ar(?:ch)?|[Aa]pr(?:il)?|[Mm]ay|[Jj]une?|[Jj]uly?|[Aa]ug(?:ust)?|[Ss]ep(?:t|tember)?|[Oo]ct(?:ober)?|[Nn]ov(?:ember)?|[Dd]ec(?:ember)?)-(?:\d{4}|\d{2}))$
```

## Examples

- `25 December 2024` — Day first
- `December 25, 2024` — Month first, as in the United States
- `Wednesday, 25 December 2024` — With the weekday
- `25th Dec 2024` — Ordinal day, abbreviated month
- `25-Dec-24` — Day, abbreviated month and two-digit year
- `December 2024` (invalid example)
- `25 Decembers 2024` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- qddate: `dt:date:date_eng1`, `dt:date:date_eng1x`, `dt:date:date_eng1_lc`, `dt:date:date_eng1_short`, `dt:date:date_eng2`, `dt:date:date_eng2_lc`, `dt:date:date_eng2_short`, `dt:date:date_eng3`, `dt:date:date_eng3_nolc`, `dt:date:date_eng4_short`, `dt:date:weekday_eng`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_lc`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_wshort`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_mshort_wshort`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_iso`, `dt:date:weekday_short_eng_iso`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_mixed`, `dt:date:date_eng_abbrev1`, `dt:date:date_eng_abbrev2`, `dt:date:date_eng_abbrev3`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_abbrev1`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_abbrev2`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_abbrev3`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_us`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_wshort_us`, `dt:date:weekday_eng_abbrev_wshort_us`, `dt:date:date_eng_abbrev_postfix`, `dt:date:date_eng5`, `dt:date:date_eng6`, `dt:date:date_eng4`

## Supported by tools

- `qddate`

## Translations

- ru: Дата с английским названием месяца: Календарная дата на английском языке с полным или сокращённым названием месяца: 5 May 2022, May 5, 2022, Monday, 5 May 2022.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_Kingdom>
- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States>
- other: <https://github.com/ivbeg/qddate/blob/v1.1.0/qddate/patterns/base.py>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/date_english.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/datetime/date_english.yaml>