Template:Date/doc

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This template is used to show the date of publication or upload in the language set in the preferences.

You can leave out parts of the data.

Usage

{{Date|1=|2=|3=|4=|form=}}

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Date example: 9 January 2009

{{Date|2009|1|9}}

Result, date in the language of your preferences: 9 {{MediaWiki:January/<lang>}} 2009(2009-01-09)

Microformat

{{Date}} also returns the date, hidden by CSS, in the ISO 8601 format needed by the hCalendar (class="dtstart") microformat. See the microformats project.

Parameters

Parameter name Description (this part of the documentation is only available in some languages) Default value required or optional?

parameter #1 (1) number of the year empty optional
parameter #2 (2) number of month in the year empty optional
parameter #3 (3) number of day in the month empty optional
parameter #4 (4) language code (only needs to be provided if the language shall be fixed and independant from the user's preferences) value of {{int:Lang}} optional
form allows to specify differing syntactic forms to apply to the date (e.g. in some Polish phrases the month must appear in genitive form instead of nominative, so you have to set form to gen) empty optional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Relies on:
{{I18n month}}, {{formatnum}}

See also

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{{ISOdate}} – Template used to parse the date in {{information}}; {{other date}}

Localization

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please edit the template and add a row to the "{{LangSwitch|}}" construct. It takes the form "|xx=Your translation" (xx being the code of your language)