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Suppose you want a very specific order. In that case, you can set Format to something like "MMMM D, YYYY". Remember, only order matters. If you used this format in the Format service, it would product "February 3, 2004." When you use this format in the Parse service, it can handle "February 3, 2004", "2/3/04", and anything else so long as the order is Month, Day, Year. Note, however, that locale still matters. If you set Format to "MMMM D, YYYY" and Locale to "es-ES", then "February 3, 2004" will fail to parse but "febrero 3, 2004" and "2/3/04" will succeed.

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