Template:Start date and age

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Usage

Syntax

Full syntax

{{Start date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=yes|br=yes}}

Common usage

{{Start date and age|yyyy|mm|dd}} to display result in March 4, 2010; 4 months ago format

{{Start date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=yes}} to display result in 4 March 2010; 4 months ago format

Description of parameters

Parameter	Description
yyyy	Four digits indicating the year. The year must always appear in a 4-digits form.
mm	A number between 1 to 12, indicating the month. Leading zeros in the number are ignored.
dd	A number between 1 to 31, indicating the day of the month. Leading zeros in the number are ignored.
df=	The optional parameter df can either be set to yes or anything other than yes. When set to yes, date will be displayed in DMY format: 4 March 2010. When set something other than yes or when this parameter is not included, date will be displayed in MD,Y format: March 4, 2010. As for choosing the right format to use, consult Manual of Style (dates and numbers): Full date formatting.
br=	The optional parameter br can either be set to yes or anything other than yes. When set to yes, a line break will be inserted between the date and the age. When set something other than yes or when this parameter is not included, a breaking space will be inserted between the date and the age. In either case, a semicolon separates the date and age, immediately before the line break or space.

Examples

Syntax	Result
Full date (year, month, day)
{{Start date and age|2010|01|02}}	January 2, 2010 (2010-01-02)
{{Start date and age|2008|08|09}}	August 9, 2008 (2008-08-09)
{{Start date and age|2003|07|05}}	July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05)
{{Start date and age|2010|1|2|df=yes}}	2 January 2010 (2010-01-02)
{{Start date and age|2008|8|9|df=yes}}	9 August 2008 (2008-08-09)
{{Start date and age|2003|7|5|df=yes}}	5 July 2003 (2003-07-05)
{{Start date and age|2009|9|9|br=yes}}	September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09)
Today: {{Start date and age|2024|11|4}}	November 4, 2024 (2024-11-04)
Yesterday: {{Start date and age|2024|11|3}}	November 3, 2024 (2024-11-03)
Year and month
{{Start date and age|2002|03}}	March 2002 (2002-03)
{{Start date and age|2002|04}}	April 2002 (2002-04)
Year only
{{Start date and age|2002}}	2002 (2002)

Use in microformats

This template also returns the date, hidden by CSS, in the ISO 8601 format needed by one or more of the following microformats:

• hAtom (class="updated")
• hAudio (class="published")
• hCalendar (class="dtstart")
• hCard (class="bday")

usually, but not always, within infobox or similar templates, or tables.

Its use in hCard is for organisations, venues and similar; use {{Birth date}} or {{Birth date and age}} for people.

Similarly, {{End date}} returns the date as hCalendar's (class="dtend").

See en:WP:UF for further details.

Limitation

This template has no provision to deal with a date in a non-Gregorian calendar. Also, ISO 8601 requires mutual agreement among those exchanging information before using years outside the range 1583–9999 CE. Therefore, use of this template for non-Gregorian dates or dates outside that range constitutes a false claim of conformance to the ISO 8601 standard.

Any editor encountering such usage should change the date to plain text with no template; or if not confident in doing so, raise the matter on this template's talk page.

Related pages

• {{Time ago}} and {{Years or months ago}}
• {{Start date and years ago}} and {{Age}}
• {{Start date}} and {{End date}}
• {{Start-date}} and {{End-date}}