Template:Birth date and age/doc

Usage

These templates ({{Birth date}} and {{Birth date and age}}) return a person's date of birth and optionally his/her age.

Syntax:

{{Birth date|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth}}

or

{{Birth date and age|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth}}

Examples:

{{Birth date|1993|2|24}} returns "(1993-02-24)February 24, 1993"

{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24}} returns (1993-02-24) February 24, 1993

An optional parameter, df, can be set (to "y" or "yes" for example) to display the day before the month. This is primarily used in articles about people from parts of the world where the day precedes the month in a date. Conversely the (unimplemented) parameter mf can be set for month first, currently the default behaviour.

Examples:

{{Birth date|1993|2|24|df=yes}} returns "(1993-02-24)24 February 1993"

{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|df=yes}} returns " (1993-02-24) 24 February 1993"

The templates also return the date, hidden by CSS, in the ISO 8601 format needed by hCard microformats. for example:

(<span class="bday">1993-02-24</span>)

See the microformats project for details.

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