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Revision as of 20:53, 1 April 2009
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= }}
Date example: 9 January 2009
{{Date|2009|1|9}}
Result, date in the language of your preferences: 9 January 2009
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.
Template parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | number of the year | empty | optional | |
2 | number of month in the year | empty | optional | |
3 | number of day in the month | empty | optional | |
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 | |
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}}, {{I18n month-gen}}, {{Formatnum}}
See also
{{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)