Template:Event date

7 Apr2026-04-07–2026-04-08

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This template inserts the specified date or date range formatted for human readability.

This template is intended to be used in space-constrained contexts where the year is already obvious to the reader. Date ranges are displayed in a compact form suitable for use in tables. Years are omitted unless the date range spans a new year.

Usage

{{Event date|start|end|lang=xx}}

Parameters:

|start =

The start date, or the current date if omitted.

|end =

The end date, or the start date if omitted.

|lang =

(Optional) The ISO 639 language code of the outputted date, or the page's current language (as determined by {{Langcode}} if omitted.

|raw =

(Optional) If set, only the date text is outputted and microformats are omitted. Set this parameter if the output is used as input to another module or part of a page name.

|start = and |end = may be relative or absolute timestamps. If only the day and month are specified, the template assumes the current year as of the time the page is loaded – not necessarily the year that the template was used. So you might as well specify a full date including the year. Acceptable timestamp formats are described in the ParserFunctions extension's documentation.

If |end = is set to an earlier date than |start =, an error is thrown.

Examples

• {{Event date}} → 7 Apr2026-04-07–2026-04-08
• {{Event date|+1day}} → 8 Apr2026-04-08–2026-04-09
• {{Event date|4 March 2019}} → 4 Mar2019-03-04–2019-03-05
• {{Event date|March 4, 2019}} → 4 Mar2019-03-04–2019-03-05
• {{Event date|2019-03-04}} → 4 Mar2019-03-04–2019-03-05
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-03-04}} → 4 Mar2019-03-04–2019-03-05
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-03-05}} → 4–5 Mar2019-03-04–2019-03-06
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-04-01}} → 4 Mar – 1 Apr2019-03-04–2019-04-02
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2020-01-01}} → 4 Mar 2019 – 1 Jan 20202019-03-04–2020-01-02
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-01-01}} → 2019-03-04–2019-01-02
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-03-05|lang=es}} → 4–5 de mar2019-03-04–2019-03-06
• {{Event date|2019-03-04|2019-04-01|lang=ja}} → 3月4日～4月1日2019-03-04–2019-04-02

Microformats

Unless |raw = is set, this template also inserts invisible microformats for the date or date range (in standard ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD), usable by external parsers (such as pin13.net/mf2 for parsing Template:Calendar and generate JSON data) for creating custom calendars.

No indication of time is given: as the default time is at start of the day (at 00:00 UTC), the second date given in date ranges will be converted in the generated microformat at start of the following day (at 00:00 UTC).

See also

• {{Dm}}
• {{Langcode}}

Inserts the specified date or date range formatted for human readability.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Start date	1	The start date, or the current date if omitted Example 2019-03-04	Date	suggested
End date	2	The end date, or the start date if omitted	Date	optional
Language code	lang	The ISO 639 language code of the outputted date, or the page’s current language if omitted Example de	String	optional
Plain text	raw	If set, only the date text is outputted and microformats are omitted; set this parameter if the output is used as input to another module or part of a page name	Boolean	optional

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