Template:End date/doc

Usage
This template (End date) returns a date, or date-time. It also include the same date (and time) duplicated in a hidden (by CSS) ISO date format, for use inside other templates which emit microformats. It should not be used outside such templates. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.

Syntax


Examples:


 * -→ "October 21, 2002"
 * → "07:30, October 21, 2002"

An optional parameter, df, can be set to "y" or "yes" (or indeed any value) to display the day before the month. This is primarily used in articles about events in parts of the world where the day precedes the month in a date.

Examples:


 * → "October 21, 2002"

Note: The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank (as seen above).

Parameters
{ "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"} }}

Use in microformats
The template returns the date as hCalendar's. For example:


 * ( 1993-02-24T08:30 )

(disable CSS or view source to see the hidden ISO-formatted output).

Note: due to the requirement exclusive "dtend" in hCalendar, and the accessibility problems that presents when a date is rendered (as seen without CSS) as 28 March 1999 (1999-03-29) or even 28 February 1999 (1999-03-01) or 31 December 1999 (2000-01-01), the Date end template should not be used for whole-day dates and should have a time of 24:00:00 or 23:59:59.

See the microformats project for further details.