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DAYNAMEdate

DAYNAMEdate is a conceptual date formatting pattern used in computing and data presentation to display the day of the week followed by a calendar date. In this pattern, DAYNAME stands for the full or abbreviated weekday name (such as Monday or Mon), and date represents the calendar date formatted according to locale or standard conventions. The result is a human-friendly date string that emphasizes the weekday.

Notation and variations: Common implementations render as “Wednesday 2025-12-09” or “Wed 2025-12-09,” depending on locale and

Usage: Used in schedules, logs, emails, and reports where readability is important. It contrasts with pure date-only

Implementation: In many programming languages, the concept is realized by combining a weekday name specifier with

Examples: For 9 December 2025, the pattern yields "Wednesday 2025-12-09".

See also: date format, strftime, locale.

format
settings.
The
date
portion
may
be
ISO-like
(YYYY-MM-DD)
or
localized
(e.g.,
December
9,
2025).
representations
and
with
time-including
formats.
a
date-specifier,
e.g.,
Python's
strftime
with
"%A
%Y-%m-%d",
Java's
SimpleDateFormat
with
"EEEE
yyyy-MM-dd".