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Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month number and year in left-to-right writing direction) in Afar, French and Somali ("d/m/yy" is a common alternative). Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in the yyyy/m/d format (Day first, month number, and year in right-to-left writing direction) in Arabic language.
long: display the current month name, day of month, year, and UTC time; rfc-2822: displays the time in rfc-2822 format; iso-8601: displays the time in iso-8601 format; wiki: displays the time in wiki format; The time parameter is optional, and can be used to get a date of other reference (like yesterday, today, tomorrow etc..) Do not use dates ...
It provides the date in the form HOUR:MINUTE, DAY MONTH YEAR (UTC) or '{{#time:H:i, d F Y (e)}}'. Use is usually best preceded by ' subst:' . The output is equivalent to using {{#time:H:i, d F Y (e)}} via the time parser function .
Changes the date's format. Options: 'dmy' for "1 January 2009", 'mdy' for "January 1, 2009", and 'ymd' for "2009-01-01" dayOfWeek Displays the day of the week. Options: true to add the day of the week, and false to suppress the day of the week dropDays Number of days in difference at which point only the number of months is displayed.
If a date to be formatted is provided but no style is specified, the template emits a date in "d month yyyy" format, as it appears (for example) on discussion pages. When no date is specified, then the current date is emitted with no year, either in "d month" format for formatting style DMY , or in "month d" format for formatting styles MDY ...
Ongoing maintenance of date formats may one day be carried out by bots on articles already tagged with templates ({{use dmy dates}} or {{use mdy dates}}) which help to identify the correct format. Potentially ambiguous dates, using slashes or full stops (6/7/1961, 12/07/1986, 6.7.1961, 12.07.1986) are re-appearing on some thousands of pages ...
-- The logic of PHP mktime is followed where m or d can be zero to mean-- the previous unit, and -1 is the one before that, etc.-- Positive values carry forward. local date if not (1 <= m and m <= 12) then date = Date (y, 1, 1) if not date then return end date = date + ((m-1).. 'm') y, m = date. year, date. month end local days_hms if not ...