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[17] The separator used between date values (year, month, week, and day) is the hyphen, while the colon is used as the separator between time values (hours, minutes, and seconds). For example, the 6th day of the 1st month of the year 2009 may be written as "2009-01-06" in the extended format or as "20090106" in the basic format without ambiguity.
However, templates have been created which ostensibly work on "magic word" or other method to autoformat dates. Some are still in place: { { date }} { {#dateformat:16 December 2009}} While the prevalence of the newer #dateformat is low, { { date }} is transcluded by thousands of articles and templates .
If no date is specified, the template emits the current date. For example, { {date}} produces 11 August 2024. To avoid emitting the current date if none is input, use Template:fdate. If a date is provided, but is not recognized as one, the text is just returned as is. Most dates will however be recognized as such, including all the formats ...
In traditional American usage, dates are written in the month–day–year order (e.g. October 1, 2024) with a comma before and after the year if it is not at the end of a sentence [2] and time in 12-hour notation (12:53 pm). International date and time formats typically follow the ISO 8601 format (2024-10-01) for all-numeric dates, [3] write ...
Wikipedia's guidelines for formatting dates (MOS:DATEFORMAT) set out the three date formats acceptable for use in Wikipedia articles, namely: Year–month–day (YMD) format—e.g., 2024-09-5 (also called the "all-numeric" format; used only where space is limited, such as in references and some tables and infoboxes, but not in article text proper).
Hours under 10 should have a leading zero (08:15). The time 00:00 refers to midnight at the start of a date, 12:00 to noon, and 24:00 to midnight at the end of a date, but 24 should not be used for the first hour of the next day (e.g. use 00:10 for ten minutes after midnight, not 24:10).
Whether to link to a year page, a month page, or a day page, depends on factors such as whether a year page would get too large to hold all content about the year; if so, both a link to a summary year page and a detailed month page could be useful. Either way, it would be useful to link to the section concerned.
A 50-year "pocket calendar" that is adjusted by turning the dial to place the name of the month under the current year. One can then deduce the day of the week or the date. A perpetual calendar is a calendar valid for many years, usually designed to look up the day of the week for a given date in the past or future.