What is the date 06/01/12 in word form?

Do you know which part of 06/01/12 is the month, which part is the day, and which part is the year? Do you know how to write 06/01/12 in words? Here we will explain in detail what each part means and show you how to say and write the date 06/01/12 in word form.

We start off by coloring each part of the date 06/01/12 so it is easy to follow along as we explain what each number means.

06/01/12

06 = Month
There are twelve months in a year. Month 06 means that it is the 6th month. The 6th month of the year is June.

01 = Day
Days in a month range from 28 to 31 days, and Day 01 means it is the 1st day of the month.

12 = Year
Year 12 means year 2012. We assumed the current century, but it could be another Century. For example, 1912 or 2112.

When we put all the pieces above together, we get June 1, 2012 and spelled out with words and no numbers is as follows:

June first, two thousand twelve

We have also heard people say it slightly differently in a sentence: It is the first day of June, two thousand twelve.

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Note: The explanations and answers on this page are how dates are written in The United States. It does not apply to countries where dates are written day/month/year instead of month/day/year.