ढाँचा:Start date/doc

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This purpose of the {{start date}} template is to return the date (or date-time) that an event or entity started or was created, and to do so in a standard format. It also includes duplicate, machine-readable date (or date-time) in the ISO date format (which is hidden by CSS), for use inside other templates (or table rows) which emit microformats. It should be used only once in each such template and never used outside such templates. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.

When not to use this template

Do not use this template for:

dates that are uncertain e.g., "before 4 April 1933"; "around 18 November 1939".
dates outside the range given under "Limitation", below.
other, secondary dates
outside microformat-emitting templates - if in doubt, see the parent template's documentation
more than one date in any parent template

Syntax

{{start date|year|month|day}}
{{start date|year|month|day|HH|MM|SS|TimeZone}} (MM and SS are optional; TimeZone may be a numerical value, or "Z" for UTC; see examples)

Examples

{{start date|1993}} → "१९९३ (१९९३)"
{{start date|1993|02}} → "फेब्रुअरी १९९३ (१९९३-०२)"
{{start date|1993|02|24}} → "फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (१९९३-०२-२४)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30}} → "०८:३०, फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|||+01:00}} → "फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (+०१:००)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|||-07:00}} → "फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (-०७:००)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23}} → "०८:३०:२३, फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|Z}} → "०८:३०:२३, फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (युटिसी)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|+01:00}} → "०८:३०:२३, फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (+०१:००)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|-07:00}} → "०८:३०:२३, फेब्रुअरी २४, १९९३ (-०७:००)"

An optional parameter, df, can be set to "y" or "yes" (or indeed any value) to display the day before the month. This is primarily used in articles using DMY format for dates.

Examples

{{start date|1993|02|24|df=y}} → "२४ फेब्रुअरी १९९३ (१९९३-०२-२४)"
{{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|df=yes}} → "०८:३०, २४ फेब्रुअरी १९९३"

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Start date

Date that an event or entity started or was created

ढाँचा प्यारामिटरहरू
मापदण्ड		विवरण	प्रकार	स्थिति
YYYY	`1`	start year	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
MM	`2`	start month	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
DD	`3`	start day of month	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
HH	`4`	start hours	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
MM	`5`	start minutes पूर्वनिर्धारित 0	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
SS	`6`	start seconds पूर्वनिर्धारित 0	सङ्ख्या	वैकल्पिक
TZ	`7`	time zone offset, “+02:00”, “-06:00” or “Z” for UTC	रेखा	वैकल्पिक
day first	`df`	boolean parameter to put the date before the month name पूर्वनिर्धारित false	रेखा	वैकल्पिक
month first	`mf`	mf=yes: order mm-dd-yyyy (=the default order) पूर्वनिर्धारित yes	String	बहिष्कृत

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 organizations, 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 the microformats project 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.

Example

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Error: expandTemplate: template "Start date/sandbox" does not exist