Templat:Start date/doc

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
• dates displayed using AM/PM format - this template only outputs 24-hour clocks

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}} → "1993 (1993)"
• {{start date|1993|02}} → "Februari 1993 (1993-02)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24}} → "24 Februari 1993 (1993-02-24)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30}} → "08:30, 24 Februari 1993 (1993-02-24T08:30)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|||+01:00}} → "24 Februari 1993 (+01:00) (1993-02-24T08+01:00)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|||-07:00}} → "24 Februari 1993 (-07:00) (1993-02-24T08-07:00)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23}} → "08:30:23, 24 Februari 1993 (1993-02-24T08:30:23)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|Z}} → "08:30:23, 24 Februari 1993 (UTC) (1993-02-24T08:30:23Z)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|+01:00}} → "08:30:23, 24 Februari 1993 (+01:00) (1993-02-24T08:30:23+01:00)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|23|-07:00}} → "08:30:23, 24 Februari 1993 (-07:00) (1993-02-24T08:30:23-07:00)"

An optional parameter, df, can be set to "y" or "yes" (or indeed any value) to display the day before the month. The order of parameters does not change (it remains YMD). This is primarily used in articles using DMY format for dates.

Examples

• {{start date|1993|02|24|df=y}} → "24 Februari 1993 (1993-02-24)"
• {{start date|1993|02|24|08|30|df=yes}} → "08:30, 24 Februari 1993 (1993-02-24T08:30)"

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

Parameter templat

Parameter		Keterangan	Jenis	Status
YYYY	1	start year	Angka	opsional
MM	2	start month	Angka	opsional
DD	3	start day of month	Angka	opsional
HH	4	start hours	Angka	opsional
MM	5	start minutes Baku 0	Angka	opsional
SS	6	start seconds Baku 0	Angka	opsional
TZ	7	time zone offset, “+02:00”, “-06:00” or “Z” for UTC	Baris	opsional
day first	df	boolean parameter to put the day before the month name Baku false	Baris	opsional
month first	mf	mf=yes: order mm-dd-yyyy (=the default order) Baku yes	Kata	usang

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.

Example

{{Start date}}

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{{Start date/sandbox}}

See also

• {{start-date}}, an alternative to this template.
• {{film date}}, a similar template for use with {{Infobox film}}.
• {{start date and age}}
• {{start date and years ago}}
• {{Start and end dates}}
• {{end date}}
• {{end-date}}
• {{trim date}}