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The year is not needed in date references within the current 12-month period: The next meeting of the Executive Council will be on Oct. 22.<\/em> Grant applications are due July 1.<\/em> An exception might be for a formal event program or invitation.<\/p>\n

When referring to a past or future year, include the year. Set off with commas if including a complete date: The target completion date for the project is Aug. 15, 2030, which will be 10 years after it started.<\/em><\/p>\n

Use an \u2018s\u2019 with no apostrophe to indicate a span of decades or centuries: the 1960s, the 1700s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Use an apostrophe before the year when abbreviating the reference: the \u201860s.<\/em><\/p>\n

No apostrophe is needed after descriptive decade references: a 1930s bungalow, a \u201850s vinyl record<\/em><\/p>\n

Years are an exception to the \u2018numbers\u2019 rule that figures cannot start a sentence: 2020 was a difficult year for many.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year is not needed in date references within the current 12-month period: The next meeting of the Executive Council will be on Oct. 22.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"glossary-categories":[1976],"glossary-tags":[],"glossary-languages":[],"class_list":["post-3473876","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-writing-style-guide"],"post_title":"years","post_content":"

The year is not needed in date references within the current 12-month period: The next meeting of the Executive Council will be on Oct. 22.<\/em> Grant applications are due July 1.<\/em> An exception might be for a formal event program or invitation.<\/p>

When referring to a past or future year, include the year. Set off with commas if including a complete date: The target completion date for the project is Aug. 15, 2030, which will be 10 years after it started.<\/em><\/p>

Use an \u2018s\u2019 with no apostrophe to indicate a span of decades or centuries: the 1960s, the 1700s.<\/em><\/p>

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No apostrophe is needed after descriptive decade references: a 1930s bungalow, a \u201850s vinyl record<\/em><\/p>

Years are an exception to the \u2018numbers\u2019 rule that figures cannot start a sentence: 2020 was a difficult year for many.<\/em><\/p>","acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"glossary-categories":[{"value":1976,"label":"Writing Style Guide"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jeremy Tackett","author_link":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/author\/jtackett\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474756,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473876\/revisions\/3474756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=3473876"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=3473876"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=3473876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}