Template:Date/doc

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This template is used to show a date in the language set in the preferences.

You can leave out parts of the data.

Usage

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

Date example: 9 January 2009

*{{Date|2009|1|9}}
*{{Date|2009|1|9|pl}}
*{{Date|2009|1|9|pl|form=gen}}
*{{Date|2009|1|9|pl|form=ins}}
*{{Date|2009|1||pl}}
*{{Date|2009|1||pl|form=gen}}
*{{Date|2009|1||pl|form=ins}}

gives

• 9 January 2009
• 9 stycznia 2009
• 9 stycznia 2009
• 9 styczniem 2009
• styczeń 2009
• stycznia 2009
• styczniem 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 independent of 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

{{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)