Template:Day-1

December 21

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{{day-1}} subtracts one from a date or date-specific pagename

Usage

{{Day-1}} - returns yesterday's date

{{Day-1|date}} - returns the day before the 'date' passed

{{Day-1|date|pagename|year|spacingchar}} - returns the name of the page one day before the 'datepage' passed in

Example

Code	Result
{{Day-1}}	December 21
{{Day-1|February 28}}	February 27
{{Day-1|February 28|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|2004}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 27, 2004
{{day-1|{{day-1}}}}	December 20
{{day-1|{{Currentmonthday}}|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/, 2024
''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:POTD_row/{{day-1|4=_}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}}&action=edit Edit]''	Edit

See also

• Template:Day+1 (edit talk links history)

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Multiple units of time

Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and Time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence)
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)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles) {{Right now (User message)}} (Orange with time and number of Wikipedia articles
Timestamp		{{Timestamp}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

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Single units of time

Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
SECOND		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
MINUTE		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
HOUR		{{Currenthour}}	{{Hour-1}}	{{Hour+1}}
WEEK		{{CURRENTWEEKOFYEAR}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{Dow}}	{{CURRENTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}}	{{LASTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{LASTWEEKDAYABBREV}}	{{NEXTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{NEXTWEEKDAYABBREV}}
MONTH	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{Currentmonth}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNUMBER}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTH}} (Can make not zero-padded) {{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{LASTMONTHABBR}}	{{NEXTMONTH}} (Can make not zero-padded) {{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{NEXTMONTHABBR}}
Day of Month		{{Currentday}}
YEAR		{{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
DECADE	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}	{{LASTDECADE}}	{{NEXTDECADE}}
CENTURY	{{CENTURY}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}	{{LASTCENTURY}}	{{NEXTCENTURY}}
MILLENNIUM	{{MILLENNIUM}}	{{Currentmillennium}}

Date and time Templates made for substitution:

Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Nov
{{Nmonth}} produces Jan
{{LastMonth}} produces Template:LastMonth
{{NextMonth}} produces Template:NextMonth

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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
• Category:Clock templates