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

See also


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)

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 Feb
{{Nmonth}} produces Apr
{{LastMonth}} produces February 2024
{{NextMonth}} produces April 2024


Individual templates

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