Template:Start date/doc

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Description
 returns the date (or date-time) that an event or entity started or was created. It also includes a duplicate, machine-readable date (or date-time) in the ISO date format (which is hidden by CSS), for use inside other templates (or table rows) which emit microformats. It should only be used once in each such template and should not be used outside such templates. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.

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

Parameters

 * MM : optional
 * SS : optional
 * TimeZone : may be a numerical value, or “Z” for UTC
 * df : Set to yes to display the day before the month: DMY format (optional)

Examples

 * → "1993"
 * → "February 1993"
 * → "February 24, 1993"
 * → "08:30, February 24, 1993"
 * → "February 24, 1993 (+01:00)"
 * → "February 24, 1993 (-07:00)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (UTC)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (+01:00)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (-07:00)"


 * yes : Examples:  → “February 24, 1993”  → “08:30, February 24, 1993”

will appear broken when the parameters are left blank (as seen hereinbefore).

VisualEditor templatedata
{ "description": "Date that an event or entity started or was created", "params": { "1": {"label": "YYYY", "description": "start year", "type": "number"}, "2": {"label": "MM", "description": "start month", "inherits": "1"}, "3": {"label": "DD", "description": "start day of month", "inherits": "1"}, "4": {"label": "HH", "description": "start hours", "inherits": "1"}, "5": {"label": "MM", "description": "start minutes", "inherits": "1", "default": "0"}, "6": {"label": "SS", "description": "start seconds", "inherits": "5"}, "7": {"label": "TZ", "description": "time zone offset, “+02:00”, “-06:00” or “Z” for UTC", "inherits": "1", "type": "string/line"}, "df": {"label": "day first", "description": "boolean parameter to put the date before the month name", "default": "false", "type": "string/line"} }}