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====Date formats====
====Date formats====


Cumulus works with dates specified in either a day before month before year format, or ISO 8601 date format where year comes first (yyyy-MM-dd).  If you are in the USA, you can can combine the month specifier, with the day specifier, in that order, to get an output where the month appears first (see example in table below).
Cumulus works with dates specified in either a day before month before year format, or ISO 8601 date format where year comes first (yyyy-MM-dd).  If you are in the USA, you can can combine the month specifier, with the day specifier, in that order, to get an output where the month appears first (see example in table below) because a single character format modification might not work.


Locales will define a '''Short Date Format''' and a '''Long Date Format'''.  Which date format is used as the default, depends on which web tag is used. What appears in short and long formats depends entirely on the selected locale.   
Locales will define a '''Short Date Format''' and a '''Long Date Format'''.  Which date format is used as the default, depends on which web tag is used. What appears in short and long formats depends entirely on the selected locale.   
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