Template:Date
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Gives a date in the language with a specified code (the default for that code is the result of Template:Uselang, which is en).
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Parameters [edit]
| Parameter name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | number of the year | empty |
| 2 | number of month in the year | empty |
| 3 | number of day in the month | empty |
| 4 | language code | language code of the user language |
| 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 |
Examples
Some results depend on the user language, try: de • en • fr • nl
{{date|2009|1|9}}→ 9 January 2009{{date|1970|2|3}}→ 3 February 1970{{date|1970|2}}→ February 1970{{date|1970}}→ 1970{{date}}→{{date|1970|||zh}}→ 1970年
Does not check existence, except for the month number:
{{date|2009|12|33}}→ 33 December 2009{{date|2009|17|33}}→ 33 Unknown date 2009
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Localization
The i18n-method used is branching to translations in the template itself.
