Saying the date, where to put the day.

[Guregori]

Hi,

I've been learning how to say and write dates in Japanese. I'm clear on writing the day, month and year, e.g.

Today is the 24th October 2012: 今日は２０１２年１０月２４日です。

But if I want to put in the day of the week 水曜日 where does it go?
今日は２０１２年１０月２４日水曜日です。
OR
今日は水曜日２０１２年１０月２４日です。
OR something else?

Thanks in advance!

 

[I Am A Baka]

「今日は２０１２年１０月２４日水曜日です。」 is correct I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I've seen it written.

For example, I found this site with the headline: "2012年10月24日 水曜日 王子ジャグリング ナイト開催！" (The Juggling Knight Prince will be held Wednesday, October 24, 2012!)

 

[Guregori]

Thanks a lot!
I have a second, related question about typing dates in Japanese. In a date, 24日 is にじゅうよっか, but how do people normally enter this using IME? For example when I type using the standard IME on my Mac, if I type "24よっか" and hit the space bar to get the kanji I end up with ２４四日. To get 24日 I have to type ２４にち which gives me the right kanji, but by entering an incorrect reading.
Obviously I can type out the whole date にじゅうよっか which gives me the right numerals and kanji but this seems a bit long-winded. For example, having to type "twenty fourth" to display "24th" in English would be inconvenient.

 

[Toritoribe]

Try 24か.
It's not surprising for ２４四日, since 24よっか is "24 + 4日".

 

[Guregori]

ありがと! I thought I'd already tried that to no avail, but turns out it works.