Template:Day-1

October 3

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{{day-1}} subtracts one from a date or date-specific pagename

Usage

{{Day-1}} - returns yesterday's date

{{Day-1|date}} - returns the day before the 'date' passed

{{Day-1|date|pagename|year|spacingchar}} - returns the name of the page one day before the 'datepage' passed in

Example

Code	Result
{{Day-1}}	October 3
{{Day-1|February 28}}	February 27
{{Day-1|February 28|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|2004}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 27, 2004
{{day-1|{{day-1}}}}	October 2
{{day-1|{{Currentmonthday}}|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 3, 2024
''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:POTD_row/{{day-1|4=_}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}}&action=edit Edit]''	Edit

See also

• Template:Day+1(edit talk links history)

Multiple units of time

Type	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
Date and time	{{time}}	{{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence) {{Simple now}}
Date only	{{Dateonly}} {{Datedow}} (Has the day of the week)	{{Date}} (Chose format) {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}}	{{CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format) {{CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{Timestamp}} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

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Single units of time

Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
SECOND		{{CURRENTSECOND}}
MINUTE		{{CURRENTMINUTE}}
HOUR		{{CURRENTHOUR}}
WEEK		{{CURRENTWEEK}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week	{{Dow}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}}
MONTH	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
YEAR		{{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
DECADE	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
CENTURY	{{CENTURY}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
MILLENNIUM	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution:

Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Sep
{{Nmonth}} produces Nov
{{LastMonth}} produces September 2024
{{NextMonth}} produces November 2024

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Individual templates

• {{Calendar}}
• {{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
• {{Clock}}
• {{Digital clock}}
• {{Digital clock and date}}

Categories of templates

• Category:Time, date and calendar templates
• Category:Date-computing templates
• Category:Date-computing templates based on current time
• Category:ISO date templates
• Category:Calendar templates

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