In casual settings, as a legacy of American rule in the early 20th century, alphanumeric date formats are usually written with a middle-endian order (month-day-year) in a way similar to that of the United States.
[1] Another format, the little-endian order (day-month-year), similar way to that of United Kingdom, is applied primarily by the military and the police, although it is also used for more formal civil uses such as government memorandums, a number of tertiary-level educational institutions such as the University of the Philippines system, and business databases for companies that deal with non-East Asian clients.
Driver's license issued by the Land Transportation Office and the UMID issued by the Social Security System, Government Service Insurance System, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, and Home Development Mutual Fund uses the ISO 8601 standard and notates the date numerically as YYYY-MM-DD.
Below are date format variations typically used in the Philippines: Standard: February 11, 2025 or month day, year.
[a] Numerical elements of dates and the time may pronounced using either their Spanish names or vernacular ones; the former is somewhat pedestrian while the latter tends to be longer, formal and academic.