Template:End date and age
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The {{End date and age}} template displays the date that an event or entity ended. It also includes a duplicate, machine-readable date in the ISO 8601 format (which is hidden by CSS), for use inside other templates which emit microformats. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.
Usage
- Common usage
{{End date and age|yyyy|mm|dd}}to display formatted as:- March 25, 2010
{{End date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=yes}}to display formatted as:- 25 March 2010
- Full syntax
{{End date and age|yyyy|mm|dd|df=yes|p=yes|br=yes}}to display formatted as:- 25 March 2010
Parameters
| Parameter | Status | Description |
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| 1 | required | A four-digit number indicating the year. |
| 2 | optional | A number between 1 and 12 indicating the month (leading zeros in the number are ignored). The month may also be specified as a name or abbreviation (e.g. "August" or "Aug"). |
| 3 | optional | A number between 1 and 31 indicating the day of the month (leading zeros in the number are ignored). |
| df= | optional | If the parameter df equals yes, y, or 1, the date will be displayed in DMY format: 4 March 2010. When this parameter is not included or set to some other value, the date will be displayed in MDY format: March 4, 2010. |
| p= paren= |
optional | If the parameter p or paren equals yes, y, or 1, the age will be displayed within parentheses. When this parameter is not included or set to some other value, the date and age are separated by a semicolon and a breaking space. |
| br= | optional | If the parameter br equals yes, y, or 1, a line break will be inserted between the date and the age. When this parameter is not included or set to some other value, a breaking space will be inserted between the date and the age. This does not change the separating characters between the date and age which are either a semicolon (default setting) or parentheses (if p=yes). |
"df" (day first) and "mf" (month first)
The default output of this template is to display the month before the day (MDY). This default may not be appropriate for articles about events or entities in parts of the world where dates are commonly given with the day preceding the month (DMY). To display the day first, assign the df parameter a value of yes, y, or 1 (e.g. df=yes).
If the default format is preferred, the parameter df may be used with value of no, n, or 0 (e.g. df=no). These values can assist bots or other automated processing to detect the intended date format; omitting the df parameter may lead an editor or bot to change the format to an unintended value.
The preference to display the month first may also be indicated via the parameter mf (e.g. mf=yes). While not actually used by the template, this is another method of indicating that the default format is intended. Do not specify both "df" and "mf" parameters in the same use of the template.
Examples
Default separator: semicolon
| Syntax | Result |
|---|---|
| Full date (year, month, day) | |
{{End date and age|2010|01|02}}
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January 2, 2010 |
{{End date and age|2008|Jan|09|df=no}}
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January 9, 2008 |
{{End date and age|2003|January|05|mf=yes}}
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January 5, 2003 |
{{End date and age|2010|1|2|df=yes}}
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2 January 2010 |
{{End date and age|2008|Jan|9|df=y}}
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9 January 2008 |
{{End date and age|2003|January|5|df=1}}
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5 January 2003 |
100 days ago:{{End date and age|2025|7|15}}
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July 15, 2025 |
Yesterday:{{End date and age|2025|10|22}}
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October 22, 2025 |
Today:{{End date and age|2025|10|23}}
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October 23, 2025 |
| Year and month | |
{{End date and age|2001|9}}
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September 2001 |
{{End date and age|2002|09}}
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September 2002 |
{{End date and age|2003|Sep}}
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September 2003 |
{{End date and age|2004|September}}
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September 2004 |
| Year only | |
{{End date and age|2005}}
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2005 |
Optional separator: parentheses
| Syntax | Result |
|---|---|
| Full date (year, month, day) | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|p=yes}}
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February 15, 2003 |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|df=y|p=y}}
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15 February 2003 |
| Year and month | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|p=1}}
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February 2003 |
| Year only | |
{{End date and age|2003|paren=yes}}
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2003 |
Line break with semicolon
| Syntax | Result |
|---|---|
| Full date (year, month, day) | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|br=yes}}
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February 15, 2003 |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|df=y|br=y}}
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15 February 2003 |
| Year and month | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|br=1}}
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February 2003 |
| Year only | |
{{End date and age|2003|br=yes}}
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2003 |
Line break with parentheses
| Syntax | Result |
|---|---|
| Full date (year, month, day) | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|p=yes|br=yes}}
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February 15, 2003 |
{{End date and age|2003|02|15|df=y|p=y|br=y}}
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15 February 2003 |
| Year and month | |
{{End date and age|2003|02|p=1|br=1}}
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February 2003 |
| Year only | |
{{End date and age|2003|paren=yes|br=yes}}
|
2003 |
Use in microformats
The template returns the date as hCalendar's (class="dtend"). For example:
- (<span class="dtend">1993-02-24T08:30</span>)
(disable CSS or view source to see the hidden ISO-formatted output).
See the microformats project for further details.
Example
{{End date and age|2015|12|31}}→ December 31, 2015December 31, 2015<span class="noprint">; 9 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">2015-12-31</span>)</span>
Tracking categories
Supporting templates
This template is a wrapper for Template:Start date and age which uses the following templates:
- Template:MONTHNAME – display name of month for a given number 1 (January) through 12 (December).
- Template:Time ago – display number of days, months, or years ago (for dates given as
|yyyy|mm|dd). - Template:Years or months ago – display number of months or years ago (for dates given as
|yyyy|mmor|yyyy). - Template:Yesno – allows optional formatting parameters to accept values other than "yes" (such as "y" or "1").
See also
- {{End date}}
- {{Time ago}} and {{Years or months ago}}
- {{Age}}
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