Template:Monthyear-1
September 2024
The code for this template is very simple! Just type
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The {{Monthyear-1}} template takes no parameters and returns the name of the month and the year as they were a month ago, like this:
{{Monthyear-1}}
renders: September 2024
Note that the same date can be shown for up to a week on a page since Wikipedia caches pages and only re-renders them under one of the follow circumstances:
- Someone visits the page and it has not been re-rendered in a week;
- Someone visits the page and manually purges or edits it.
See also
- {{Monthyear}} – renders this: October 2024
- {{Monthyear+1}} – renders this: November 2024
You can do this yourself
{{#time:F Y|-1 month}}
See here to learn more about time parser functions.