I never got the MoS for dates, people would complain anout what should and shouldn't be linked, what format it should be placed in (eg: american or british [example of this is at the page for recent invasion that russia took part in [i forget the names]]. Why can't people just agree on a single standard, i know that there is a ISO standard (8601) but i believe that was more for people doing engineering based stuff comparted to normal writing.