Template:Date and time templates

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= Multiple units of time =

class="wikitable"

!Type

!Adjustable

!Current

!Last

!Next

Date and time

|{{tl|time}}

|{{tl|Currentdate}} (MDY)
{{tl|Plain now}} (DMY)
{{tl|Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence)
{{tl|Simple now}}

Date only

|{{tl|Dateonly}}
{{tl|Datedow}}
(Has the day of the week)

|{{tl|Date}} (Chose format)
{{tl|DATE}} (prefixed by date=)
{{tl|TODAY}} (DMY)

|{{tl|Yesterday}}
{{tl|Day-1}}

|{{tl|Tomorrow}}
{{tl|Day+1}}

Month and year only

|{{tl|Monthyear}}

|{{tl|Monthyear-1}}

|{{tl|Monthyear+1}}

Time only

|{{tl|Timeonly}}

|{{tl|CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format)
{{tl|CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format)

Banners

|{{tl|Right now}}
(Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)

Timestamp

|{{tl|Timestamp}}
(Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

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= Single units of time =

class="wikitable"

!Unit of time

!Adjustable

!Current

!Last

!Next

Second

|{{Template link|CURRENTSECOND}}

Minute

|{{Template link|CURRENTMINUTE}}

Hour

|{{Magic word link|CURRENTHOUR}}

Week

|{{Magic word link|CURRENTWEEK}}
{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}

Day of Week

|{{Template link|DAYOFWEEK}}

|{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}}
{{Template link|CURRENTWEEKDAY}}

Month

|{{Template link|MONTHNAME}}
{{Template link|MONTHABBREV}}
{{Template link|MONTHNUMBER}}
{{Template link|MONTH}} (zero padded)

|{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{Magic word link|CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{Template link|CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}

|{{Template link|LASTMONTHNAME}}

|{{Template link|NEXTMONTHNAME}}

Day of Month

|{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAY}}
{{Magic word link|CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)

Year

|{{Template link|CURRENTYEARCC}}
{{Template link|CURRENTYEARYY}}
{{Template link|CURRENTISOYEAR}}
{{Magic word link|CURRENTYEAR}}

|{{Template link|LASTYEAR}}

|{{Template link|NEXTYEAR}}

Day of Year

|{{Template link|CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}

Decade

|{{Template link|DECADE}}

|{{Template link|CURRENTDECADE}}

Century

|{{Template link|Century}}

|{{Template link|CURRENTCENTURY}}

MILLENNIUM

|{{Template link|MILLENNIUM}}

= Date and time templates made for substitution: =

Month:
{{tl|Lmonth}} produces {{Lmonth}}
{{tl|Nmonth}} produces {{Nmonth}}
{{tl|Last month}} produces {{Last month}}
{{tl|Next month}} produces {{Next month}}