Dates take the format Day-Mth or Mth-Day (Depending on the Region).
You can enter the date in a few forms to make it easy for you. The following formats will result in the date being displayed (in this example) as 9-Nov:
And if you are in the current month (i.e. Nov) then you only need to type the "day" in,
All will return the date 9-Nov