| Days | Monday to Friday are weekdays; Saturday and Sunday are the weekend | Monday / Friday / the weekend |
| Months | twelve months, from January to December | January / June / December |
| Day of the month | say the day as an ordinal, then of and the month | 5 May → the fifth of May |
| Date order | day, month, year (US: month, day, year) | 04/07/2026 = 4 July |
| Years | two pairs of digits; 00 is hundred, 01–09 take oh | nineteen ninety-nine / nineteen hundred / nineteen oh five |
| After 2000 | 2000–2009: two thousand (and) + unit; from 2010 both forms are common | two thousand and eight / twenty twenty-six |
| Asking the date | ask What's the date today? and answer with an ordinal | It's the tenth of October. |
| Capitals | days and months start with a capital letter | Monday / June |
| Trap | the first d in Wednesday is silent | Wednesday /ˈwenzdeɪ/ |