Template:Day

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This template adds an automatically generated short description. If the automatic short description is not optimal, override it by adding {{Short description}} at the top of the article.

Usage

This template is the article lead for the pages January 1 through December 31, but is not used on February 29. The template is not supposed to be a countdown clock for the current year, but rather should be a consistent lead that produces the same output regardless of the current year.

{{Day}} will produce this on August 16:

August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 137 days remain until the end of the year.

Multiple units of time


Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}}
Date only	{{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week)	{{Date}} (Chose format) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}} {{Last month}}	{{Monthyear+1}} {{Next month}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}} (Adjustable to 12 h format)	{{CURRENTTIME}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Single units of time


Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Second		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
Minute		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
Hour		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
Week		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAYNAMEABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} (1–7, ISO) {{CURRENTDOW}} (0–6)
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{Last month (short)}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{Next month (short)}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
Millenium	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution

Parser functions

mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

Individual templates

Categories of templates

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Day/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.