Template:ISOdate/doc

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Takes a date in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. "2026-08-21") and hands it over to {{Date}} to display it in localised format.

This template is needed to catch some flaws of the automatic conversion by {{#time: }} for non-full dates (e.g. "77-09" for September 77 AD, which would throw an error with {{#time: }})

Usage

{{ISOdate |1= |2= |f= }}

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
1	date in ISO 8601 format. Supported dates are any dates between 1 January 32 AD and 31 December 9999 AD. Dates from 1 January 1 AD until 31 December 31 are not yet supported cause they are not distinguishable from dates in the format DD-MM-YY (this will most likely change after all ambiguous dates are cleaned up). Dates BC are not yet supported. Note: A date like "99-05-01" or "07-05-01" will always refer to the day in the first century, not the day in the 20th or 21st century. Please always note down the full year.		empty	required
2	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
f	format ("Y" for year-only output ["{{ISOdate|2008-08-06|f=Y}}" will result in the output "6 August 2008")		empty	optional

Additional information

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

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

See also

{{Date}}, {{Other date}}

Localization

This template is not intended to be localized.