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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Day. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
This template adds an automatically generated short description. |
Contents
Usage
This template is the article lead for the pages January 1 through December 31, but is not used on February 29. The template is not supposed to be a countdown clock for the current year, but rather should be a consistent lead that produces the same output regardless of the current year.
See also
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This template does not put a working clock on your page. The clock will not update the time on your screen every minute. Instead, it records the date and time that the page was most recently edited or purged. If you want a clock that constantly updates, then go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets and enable the Appearance item, "Add a clock to the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC and provides a link to purge the current page". |
Multiple units of time
Type | Adjustable | Current | Last | Next |
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Date and time | {{time}} | {{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}} |
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Date only | {{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week) |
{{Date}} (Chose format) {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=) {{TODAY}} (DMY) |
{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}} |
{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}} |
Time only | {{Timeonly}} | {{CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format) {{CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format) |
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Banners | {{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles) |
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Timestamp | {{Timestamp}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss) |
Single units of time
Date and time templates made for substitution:
Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Dec
{{Nmonth}} produces Feb
{{LastMonth}} produces December 2022
{{NextMonth}} produces February 2023
Individual templates
- {{Calendar}}
- {{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
- {{Clock}}
- {{Digital clock}}
- {{Digital clock and date}}
Categories of templates
- Category:Time, date and calendar templates
- Category:Date-computing templates
- Category:Date-computing templates based on current time
- Category:ISO date templates
- Category:Calendar templates