Grammatically correct way for writing dates in US English

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After a lot of online research, I’m confused about what is the grammatically correct way to write dates in messages:

Let’s see if I want to say the night of 2022-07-05 is available. Which one of the following is correct?

  • The night of July 5 is available
  • The night of the 5th of July is available
  • The night of July 05 is available
  • The night of July 5th is available
  • The night of July 05th is available

The worst part is many of guests have written in these formats so I don’t know what to use. I can’t find a good explanation on why one is better or correct vs. the other.

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and I would say the 5th of July because I have never understood why the USA is the ONLY place that puts the month ahead of the day and then the year!

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Honestly, I think all of them work. It is my personal opinion that no one will probably notice the difference. . When I know I’m writing to someone outside the USA I use their format.

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Mexico does, too. But being Mexico, sometimes it’s the other way around, which is fun to try to figure out.
You also never know if the hot water is connected on the right or the left hand faucet until you try it.

Your examples are all gramatically correct, except the last one, July 05th, which sounds weird.

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And some of us Americans use multiple formats in multiple situations. As long as you spell out the month, I don’t believe format matters any great deal.

There is no one global grammatically-correct way to write dates.

If, however you use numbers for the month, then real confusion can happen:
6/9/22 – is that June 9th or September 6?

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I too would say the 5th of July because that’s how I could say it in Spanish “el cinco de julio.”

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It doesn’t matter at all, I agree.

Just spell out the month and there’s no confusion. It doesn’t matter if it’s 27 September, 27th September, September 27th or whatever - if I had an inquiry or booking from someone who didn’t understand that, I’d be very concerned about what other simple things they didn’t understand.

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