The Verity engine supports many import date formats, including many textual date formats, and the numeric date formats listed in the following table:
| 
 Format variable  | 
    
 Description  | 
  
|---|---|
| 
 MDY  | 
    
 Dates written as month-day-year (US format, the default)  | 
  
| 
 DMY  | 
    
 Dates written as day-month-year (European format)  | 
  
| 
 YMD  | 
    
 Dates written as year-month-day (ISO international format)  | 
  
| 
 YDM  | 
    
 Dates written as year-day-month (Swedish format)  | 
  
| 
 USA  | 
    
 Dates written in US format (the same as MDY)  | 
  
| 
 EUR  | 
    
 Dates written in European format (the same as DMY)  |