Template:Digiclock/doc

This clock started as an experiment on Anakin101's part in MediaWiki template syntax and formatting, but it also makes a nice user page gadget. To use it, copy this code and fill in the values. All the parameters are optional.

Like other user clocks at WP:CLOCK, this won't update in real time once the page has loaded, and due to the cache mechanism of the MediaWiki software, it may not update if the page is viewed often enough to be kept in the cache, unless you purge the page. But despite these limitations it usually works quite well.

You can have nearly any size, though the graphics have a base size of 70×112 pixels. You can have any color so long as it contrasts with black. ;)

You can adjust the time by any number of hours and minutes. (The offset can be fractional.) E.g., offset=9.5 gives Australian Central Standard Time:

Twelve-hour clocks get an extra segment for am/pm.

Normal HTML can be used to add borders and padding space. One tricky bit is that <div> elements expand to the full width of their container, which will make the box too wide. So we must specify an exact width for it, by multiplying the segment size by 5 (for 24-hour clocks) or 6 (for 12-hour clocks):

A proposed CSS3 property called border-radius allows round borders. It is not finalized but Gecko-based browsers (Firefox and friends) and Webkit-based browsers (Safari, Chrome) support early versions of it (use both).

See Wikipedia:User page design center/Style for more borders.

Wrapping the clock in a div with the same width as the segments will make it vertical. Borders work as normal.

Parser magic can be used to pick a random color each time the page is generated. E.g., {{#time:U}} is the number of seconds since New Year 1970, so {{#expr:{{#time:U}} mod 6}} will produce a random number from 0 to 5. So if we put that in a {{#switch}} we can make a list of colors to choose from:

This template does not put a working clock on your page. The clock will not update the time on your screen every minute. 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".

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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Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
SECOND		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
MINUTE		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
HOUR		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
WEEK		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}}
MONTH	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
YEAR		{{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
DECADE	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
CENTURY	{{CENTURY}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
MILLENNIUM	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Jul
{{Nmonth}} produces Sep
{{LastMonth}} produces July 2026
{{NextMonth}} produces September 2026

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• {{Calendar}}
• {{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
• {{Clock}}
• {{Digital clock and date}}

• 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