28 January 2019
2019-01-28 or 28/01/2019
The ISO 8601 date format (2019-01-28) is the recommended short date format for government publications.[1] The first two digits of the year are often omitted in everyday use and on forms (28/01/19).
Weeks are most identified by the last day of the week, either the Friday in business (e.g., "week ending 19/1") or the Saturday or Sunday in use (e.g., "week ending 20/1" or "week ending 21/1"). Week ending is often abbreviated to "W/E" or "W.E." The first day of the week or the day of an event are sometimes referred to (e.g., "week of 15/1" or "week of 14/1"). Week numbers (as in "the third week of 2007") are not often used, but may appear in some business diaries in numeral-only form (e.g., "3" at the top or bottom of the page). ISO 8601 week notation (e.g. 2019-W05) is not widely understood.[citation needed]