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    Revision as of 07:32, 11 July 2018

    VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced - white.svg This is a documentation subpage for Template:Birth date and age.
    It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original page.

    Template:Birth date and age will return a living person's date of birth and age. Using this template rather than simply inserting the date into articles allows for the inclusion of hidden metadata about the date. This metadata can be used by web browsers and other software tools to extract the details, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, index, or search them.

    This template is intended for use in an article about a living person. For an article about a dead person, use {{Birth date}} with {{Death date and age}}.

    Usage

    Unnamed parameters for year, month, day
    {{Birth date and age|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth|additional parameters}}
    {{bda|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth|additional parameters}}
    Named parameters for year, month, day
    {{Birth date and age|year=year of birth|month=month of birth|day=day of birth|additional parameters}}
    {{bda|year=year of birth|month=month of birth|day=day of birth|additional parameters}}

    Additional parameters

    The df (day first) and mf (month first) parameters indicate the intended date format to display. The appropriate parameter should be set to "y" or "yes" e.g. df=yes or mf=y.

    The default output of this template is to display the month before the day. This default may not be appropriate for articles about people from parts of the world where the day precedes the month in a date. In such articles the parameter, "df", should be set to display the day before the month.

    The parameter "mf", while not actually used by the template, will indicate that month first format is intended. Using these parameters can assist bots or other automated processing to detect which date format is intended; leaving the format as default may lead an editor or bot to change the format to an unintended value.

    Do not specify both "df" and "mf" parameters in the same use of the template, as these formats are mutually exclusive.

    Error tracking

    Some kinds of invalid input are tracked in Category:Pages using age template with invalid date.

    hCard microformat

    This template also returns the date, hidden by CSS, in the ISO 8601 standard.[1] [2] For example:

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

    Note: For the "foundation", "built" and similar set-up dates of companies, buildings etc., use {{start date}} (this will work for year-only or month-year dates). Because the ISO 8601 standard requires the Gregorian calendar, this template should not be used if the date is given in the Julian calendar.

    For further information, visit the microformats project.

    Notes

    • Do not use with non-Gregorian dates because the resulting hCard hidden date will be false.
    • The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank.
    • When only the month or year of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth for privacy reasons, consider using the templates {{Birth year}} or {{Birth year and age}} instead.

    Examples

    Unnamed parameters for year, month, day
    {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|df=yes}} returns " (1993-02-04) 4 February 1993 (age 31)"
    {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|mf=yes}} returns " (1993-02-04) February 4, 1993 (age 31)"
    {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4}} returns " (1993-02-04) February 4, 1993 (age 31)"
    Named parameters for year, month, day
    {{Birth date and age|year=1993|month=2|day=4|df=yes}} returns " (1993-02-04) 4 February 1993 (age 31)"
    {{Birth date and age|year=1993|month=2|day=4|mf=yes}} returns " (1993-02-04) February 4, 1993 (age 31)"
    {{Birth date and age|year=1993|month=2|day=4}} returns " (1993-02-04) February 4, 1993 (age 31)"

    TemplateData

    This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

    TemplateData for Birth date and age

    This template returns a living person's date of birth and current age (or age at a certain date).

    Template parameters

    ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
    Year of birth1 year

    The year in which the person was born

    Numberrequired
    Month of birth2 month

    The month (number) in which the person was born

    Numberrequired
    Day of birth3 day

    The day (number) in which the person was born

    Numberrequired
    Age at year4

    Optional date to calculate age

    Unknownoptional
    Age at month5

    Optional date to calculate age

    Unknownoptional
    Age at day6

    Optional date to calculate age

    Unknownoptional
    Day firstdf

    When set to 'y' or 'yes', the date of birth is output in a DMY format

    Stringoptional
    Month firstmf

    When set to 'y' or 'yes', stresses that the default MDY date format is intended for the date of birth

    Stringoptional

    References

    1. "Date Design Pattern". Microformats Wiki. April 7, 2013.
    2. "hCalendar closed issues". Microformats Wiki. August 28, 2009. Specifically rejects supporting the Julian calendar.

    See also