Editing Template:Date and time templates

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|Template:Date and time templates=These templates do '''not''' put a working clock on your page.
|#default=This template does '''not''' put a working clock on your page.}}</big> 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 [[WP:PURGE|purge]]d.<br />
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=== Multiple units of time ===
{| class="wikitable"
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!Type
!Adjustable
!Current
!Last
!Next
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|Date and time
|{{tl|time}}
|{{tl|Currentdate}} (MDY)<br>{{tl|Plain now}} (DMY)<br>{{tl|Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence)<br>{{tl|Simple now}}
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|Date only
|{{tl|Dateonly}}<br>{{tl|Datedow}}<br>(Has the day of the week)
|{{tl|Date}} (Chose format)<br>{{tl|DATE}} (prefixed by date=)<br>{{tl|TODAY}} (DMY)
|{{tl|Yesterday}}<br>{{tl|Day-1}}
|{{tl|Tomorrow}}<br>{{tl|Day+1}}
|-
|Month and year only
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|{{tl|Monthyear}}
|{{tl|Monthyear-1}}
|{{tl|Monthyear+1}}
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|Time only
|{{tl|Timeonly}}
|{{tl|CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format)<br>{{tl|CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format)
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|-
|Banners
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|{{tl|Right now}}<br>(Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
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|Timestamp
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|{{tl|Timestamp}}<br>(Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)<br>
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|}

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=== Single units of time ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Unit of time
!Adjustable
!Current
!Last
!Next
|-
|Second
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|{{Template link|CURRENTSECOND}}
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|Minute
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|{{Template link|CURRENTMINUTE}}
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|Hour
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|{{Magic word link|CURRENTHOUR}}
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|Week
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|{{Magic word link|CURRENTWEEK}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
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|Day of Week
|{{Template link|DAYOFWEEK}}
|{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAYNAME}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKDAY}}
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|-
|Month
|{{Template link|MONTHNAME}}<br>{{Template link|MONTHABBREV}}<br>{{Template link|MONTHNUMBER}}<br>{{Template link|MONTH}} (zero padded)
|{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTHNAME}}<br>{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}<br>{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTH1}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}
|{{Template link|LASTMONTHNAME}}
|{{Template link|NEXTMONTHNAME}}
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|Day of Month
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|{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAY}}<br>{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
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|Year
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|{{Template link|CURRENTYEARCC}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTYEARYY}}<br>{{Template link|CURRENTISOYEAR}}<br>{{Magic word link|CURRENTYEAR}}
|{{Template link|LASTYEAR}}
|{{Template link|NEXTYEAR}}
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|Day of Year
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|{{Template link|CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
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|Decade
|{{Template link|DECADE}}
|{{Template link|CURRENTDECADE}}
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|Century
|{{Template link|Century}}
|{{Template link|CURRENTCENTURY}}
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|MILLENNIUM
|{{Template link|MILLENNIUM}}
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|}

=== Date and time templates made for substitution: ===
'''Month:'''<br>{{tl|Lmonth}} produces {{Lmonth}}<br>{{tl|Nmonth}} produces {{Nmonth}}<br>{{tl|Last month}} produces {{Last month}}<br>{{tl|Next month}} produces {{Next month}}

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==== Parser functions ====
* [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/time]] permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the [[C date and time functions]]
==== Individual templates ====
*{{tl|Calendar}}
*{{tl|Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
*{{tl|Clock}}
*{{tl|Digital clock}}
*{{tl|Digital clock and date}}
* {{tl|Infobox calendar date today}}
* {{<nowiki></nowiki>{{u|Raph Williams65/digiclock}}<nowiki></nowiki>}}

==== 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]]<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
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