Template:Dts

[edit] Template documentation

This template was deprecated. Articles that were using this template have been switched to the {{dts2}} template. The change made was the date format, which changed the DD-MM-YYYY format to the YYYY-MM-DD format, an ISO 8601 standard.

Dts stands for Date Table Sorting and is used to correctly sort and display dates in a sortable table (see Help:Sorting).

[edit] What it solves

Normally, for proper sorting dates must be entered in YYYY-MM-DD format. But this does not conform to the Manual of Style for date display and wikilinking.

This template automatically creates the hidden <span style="display:none">1776-07-04</span> for sorting purposes and then displays and wikilinks the date properly like this July 4, 1776, depending on the user's Special:Preferences.

[edit] Parameters

• 1st parameter - Year
  • Year number - number in the range -9999 through 9999: the numbers -9999 through 0 are used without "bc" and represent astronomical years -9999 through 0, the numbers 1 through 9999 represent that year AD, or BC with the fourth parameter set to bc or BC
• 2nd parameter - Month (optional if the day is not given either)
  • Full month name - February or february
  • Abbreviated month name - Feb or feb
  • Month number - 2 or 02
• 3rd parameter - Day (optional)
  • Day number - 7 or 07
• 4th parameter - optional with value BC or bc
  • Used with a positive year number

Thus e.g. for the year 5 BC we can use "5|bc" or "-4".

A time period (year or month and year) is sorted according to its start, and time periods with the same starting moment are in order of descending length: a year comes before its first month; a month comes before its first day.

[edit] Input

{{Dts|1776|July|4}}

See also the examples.

[edit] Output

Output sent to table

<span style="display:none">1776-07-04</span> [[July 4]] [[1776]]

Output displayed to user
01776-07-04 4 July 1776

[edit] See also

• Template:TBA (backlinks, edit) - allows quarters, and allows sorting of time periods by end date.
• m:Template:dts (backlinks, edit) - since on Meta e.g. 09999 9999 induces numeric sort mode, "&" is prefixed to force string sort mode

[edit] Examples

Examples with debug=yes (hidden parts are made visible):

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The same examples with hidden parts actually hidden:

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