Template:Birth date and age in years and days
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Template:Birth date and age in years and days will return a living person's date of birth and age in years and days. 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}}.
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Usage
- Unnamed parameters for year, month, day
{{Birth date and age|year, month, and day of birth}}
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
- The template will appear broken when the parameters are left blank.
- When only the year of a person's birth is 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
- Output format
{{Birth date and age in years and days|1993-2-24}}returns "24 February 1993 (31 years, 80 days old)"{{Birth date and age in years and days|Feb 24, 1993}}returns "24 February 1993 (31 years, 80 days old)"{{Birth date and age in years and days|24 Feb 1993}}returns "24 February 1993 (31 years, 80 days old)"
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This template 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.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1 | Year, month, and day in which the person was born. A variety of formats are accepted, see [[Template:Extract/doc#Date]] for format description.
| String | required |
References
- ^ "Date Design Pattern". Microformats Wiki. April 7, 2013.
- ^ "hCalendar closed issues". Microformats Wiki. August 28, 2009. Specifically rejects supporting the Julian calendar.