Template:Start And End Dates
Usage
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 and end dates|year|month|day|year|month|day}}
- Examples
- Standard:
{{start and end dates|1939|9|1|1945|9|2}}
→ September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 - Day first:
{{start and end dates|1939|9|1|1945|9|2|df=yes}}
→ 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945 - Same year:
{{start and end dates|1939|9|1|1939|10|2}}
→ September 1 – October 2, 1939 - Same month and year:
{{start and end dates|1939|9|1|1939|9|2}}
→ September 1–2, 1939 - Present range:
{{start and end dates|1939|9|1|present}}
→ September 1, 1939 – present
Parameters
TemplateData for Start and end dates
Date that an event or entity started or was created and when it ended or was destroyed
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
YYYY | 1 | start year
| Number | optional |
MM | 2 | start month
| Number | optional |
DD | 3 | start day of month
| Number | optional |
YYYY | 4 | end year
| Number | optional |
MM | 5 | end month
| Number | optional |
DD | 6 | end day of month
| Number | optional |
day first | df | boolean parameter to put the date before the month name
| Line | optional |
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:
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.
See also
- {{start date}}
- {{end date}}