Template:Datetime

16:33, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

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Usage

This template is intended to be used for time stamping. It provides the date in the form HOUR:MINUTE, DAY MONTH YEAR (UTC) or '{{#time:H:i, d F Y (e)}}'. Use is usually best preceded by 'subst:'.

The output is equivalent to using {{#time:H:i, d F Y (e)}} via the time parser function.


Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}}
Date only	{{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week)	{{Date}} (Chose format) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}}	{{Monthyear+1}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}}	{{CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format) {{CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{Timestamp}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Single units of time


Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Second		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
Minute		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
Hour		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
Week		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}}
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
MILLENNIUM	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution:

Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Jul
{{Nmonth}} produces Sep
{{Last month}} produces July 2025
{{Next month}} produces September 2025

Parser functions

mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

Individual templates

Categories of templates

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Datetime/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.