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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".
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Date and time templates. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. Usage
Normally, this would required redundantly copying the same logic if the information were passed in multiple template parameters. dates in up-date is in an odd range. This is done because years below 2500 can be interpreted as time by the #time function, and because dates <100 are misinterpreted. This allows a range of 6999BC to 6999AD.
<date to be formatted> is an (optional) date to be formatted. If no date is specified, the template emits the current date. For example, {{date}} produces 17 December 2024. To avoid emitting the current date if none is input, use Template:fdate. If a date is provided, but is not recognized as one, the text is just returned as is. Most dates ...
A time dimension with a grain of seconds in a day will only have 86400 rows. A more or less detailed grain for date/time dimensions can be chosen depending on needs. As examples, date dimensions can be accurate to year, quarter, month or day and time dimensions can be accurate to hours, minutes or seconds.
This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
This template ({{Format date}}) returns a date, or date-time, without the hidden version for use in microformats. This template is probably best used internally in other templates. If you need the microformat support, use template {} instead. If you want sortable dates for a table, use {{Date table sorting}} instead.
Date table sorting is used to correctly sort and display dates in a sortable table (see Help:Sortable tables). What it solves Dates in their customary formats, if simply treated as alphanumeric text strings, sort in nonsensical ways: