Module:Date/doc

Summary

This module is intended for creating of date strings in any language. It serves as a back-end of {{Date}} template. See documentation of that template for documentation.

The internationalization of the date formats can be found at Module:I18n/date. Called from Module:ISOdate.

Using this module from templates

Date

This module should only be called from {{Date}} template. Please call that template to access this module. Also see {{Date}} template for full documentation

Usage:

{{#invoke:Date|Date|year=...|month=...|day=...|hour=...|minute=...|second=...|tzhour=...|tzmin=...|lang=...}}

Parameters:

year

year parameter

month

month parameter

year

year parameter

day

day parameter

hour

hour parameter

minute

minute parameter

second

second parameter

tzhour

tzhour parameter - time zone offset from UTC, hours component

tzmin

tzmin parameter - time zone offset from UTC, minutes component

lang

lang - language parameter

class

class - parameter adds html class microtag

case

case - parameter for grammatical cases

trim_year

trim_year parameter

Example:

{{#invoke:Date|Date|year=1990|month=Oct|day=01|lang=en}} produces 1 October 1990

Using this module from Lua code

In order to use the functions in this module from another Lua module you first have to import this module.

Example:

local DateMod = require('Module:Date')

_Date

Usage:

date_string = DateMod._Date({year,month,day,hour,minute, second},lang)

See Also

Modules related to internationalization (i18n) of dates

Module Name Uses Module Used by Module Used by Template Comment Module:Date Module:I18n/date Module:ISOdate Template:Date Create date string in any language Module:ISOdate Module:Date Module:Complex date Template:ISOdate & Template:ISOyear Parse YYYY-MM-DD date string Module:Roman Module:Complex date Module:Ordinal Template:Roman Create Roman numerals Module:Ordinal Module:I18n/ordinal Module:Roman Module:Complex date Template:Ordinal Create Ordinal numerals Module:Complex date Module:I18n/complex date Module:ISOdate Module:Roman Module:Ordinal Template:Other date (not deployed yet) Create complex date phrases in many languages