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What date is today?

Hi,
"What date is today?", did I make question correctly, to the answer, today is April, the tenth?

Thank you.
 

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anton_maximov profile picture anton_maximovApril 2019
My English teacher asks this question every day: "What date is IT today?" It is the eleventh of April.
AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgAugust 2021
”What date is it today?” is perhaps more formal than ”What’s today’s date?” ”What date is today?” is more locally colloquial and American.

How you express the date depends on whether you are using British or American English.

In British English, dates are given in the order ”day - month - year” whereas in American English it’s ”month - day - year”.

So, ”the tenth of April” would be British English while ”April the tenth” would be American.
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgJuly 2022
    As I had said in my answer, the format for dates in the US is defined as month - day - year.

    This is even an ISO standard:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

    Your source
    https://calendarhours.com/todays-date/

    does not actually give the question formats for asking for the date which you put down in your response....

    Also, your source was clearly not written by a native speaker of English judging from quite a few very basic grammatical errors...

    However, actually reading your link and to quote:

    ”
    In traditional American usage, dates are written in month-day-year order.

    For example: Thursday, 30th of June 2022.”

    (when I copy-pasted this from the website, the date was the 30th of June)

    They look like they copy-pasted the script for the British date formal!

    They even describe the differences between British and American date formats:

    ”In traditional American usage, dates are written in month-day-year order.

    The day of the week always comes first and is separated from the rest of the date by a comma.

    With a comma before and after the year, if not at the end of a sentence.

    Note that in American English there is a comma before the year, but not in British English. ”

    At least their text blurb corresponds to the information in the Wikipedia link I had given. As I had said, the date given in your source was in British format and not an American one....

    In general, this calendarhours.com site looks like a poorly coded and produced piece of clickbait garbage not written by native speakers of English!