Module:DateI18n/doc

Summary

This module is intended for creating of date strings in any language. It serves as a back-end of {{Date}} template. See documentation of that template for documentation.

The internationalization of the date formats can be found at Data:DateI18n.tab and Data:I18n/MonthCases.tab. Module:DateI18n is called from Module:ISOdate.

Using this module from templates

Date

This module should only be called from {{Date}} template. Please call that template to access this module. Also see {{Date}} template for full documentation

Usage:

{{#invoke:DateI18n|Date|year=...|month=...|day=...|hour=...|minute=...|second=...|tzhour=...|tzmin=...|lang=...}}

Parameters:

year, month, day, hour, minute, second

(most are optional) parameters specifying part of the date

tzhour, tzmin

(optional and rarely used) time zone offset from UTC

class

(optional) Allows setting of the HTML class of the time node where the date is included. This is useful for microformats. The default value is, for legacy reasons, "dtstart" (used by hCalendar). "class=" will remove all metadata.

trim_year

trim_year parameter

Example:

{{#invoke:DateI18n|Date|year=1990|month=Oct|day=01}} produces 1 October 1990