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Date Format Converter

Pick one date and see it rendered in every format you're likely to need — no more guessing whether 03/04 means March 4th or April 3rd.

Using a date picker instead of free text on purpose — it's the only way to guarantee the input itself is never ambiguous.

Pick a date to see every format

Why so many formats exist

There's no single global convention for writing dates. The US defaults to month-day-year, most of Europe and the rest of the world defaults to day-month-year, and ISO 8601 exists specifically to sidestep the disagreement with an unambiguous year-first format. RFC 2822 is what email headers and some HTTP contexts expect. None of these are wrong — they're just different audiences.

If you're formatting dates in code rather than by hand, the Epoch Time in Programming Languages guide has the actual function calls for each language. For a deeper look at why the ambiguity causes real bugs, see the blog.

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