Module:Complex date/doc

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This module is intended for processing of date strings. It is used by:

• {{Complex date}}
• {{Other date}}
• {{Era}}
• {{Circa}}
• {{Season}}

Complex date

This function is the engine behind {{Complex date}}. Please see that template for full documentation

Usage:

should not be used directly but only through {{Other date}} and other templates

{{#invoke:Complex_date|complex_date|adj1=|date1=|era1=|precision1=|conj=-|adj2=|date2=|era2=|precision2=|lang=}}

or

{{#invoke:Complex_date|complex_date|1=|2=|3=|era=|lang=}}

Parameters (simple syntax):

1

option. See {{Other date}}

2

date #1

3

date #2

Parameters (advanced syntax):

conj

in case the link between the two dates: "-" (from-until), between, or, and (see {{Complex date}})

adj1, adj2

adjectives and prepositions used to describe single date. Possible values: early, mid, late, spring, summer, fall, winter, 1st half, 2nd half, 1st quarter, 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter, 4th quarter, etc. used for describing which part of date1 and date2 are involved (see {{Complex date}})

date1, date2

the dates involved. Format: Number or whatever {{ISOdate}} takes.

precision1, precision2

usually year or more precise (default), but can also be decade, century or millennium, then the dates involved are centuries or millennia rather than specific dates

era1, era2

the eras that those dates are from (see {{Complex date}}). If parameter era is present, it overrides these two parameters.

The internationalization of the date formats can be found at Module:I18n/complex date

Dependencies

Module:Complex_date relies on the following modules:

• Module:Calendar (lazy loading with no dependencies)
• Module:ISOdate

• Module:DateI18n (no dependencies)

• Module:i18n/complex date

• Module:Ordinal (lazy loading)

• Module:I18n/ordinal (no dependencies)
• Module:Yesno (from en.wikipedia) (no dependencies)
• Module:Formatnum (no dependencies)

• Module:Roman (lazy loading with no dependencies)
• Module:Linguistic (lazy loading with no dependencies)

See Also

Modules related to internationalization (i18n) of dates
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Module Name	Uses Module	Used by Module	Used by Template	Comment
Module:DateI18n	Module:I18n/date	Module:ISOdate	Template:Date	Create date string in any language
Module:ISOdate	Module:DateI18n	Module:Complex date	Template:ISOdate & Template:ISOyear	Parse YYYY-MM-DD date string
Module:Roman		Module:Complex date Module:Ordinal	Template:Roman	Create Roman numerals
Module:Ordinal	Module:I18n/ordinal Module:Roman	Module:Complex date	Template:Ordinal	Create Ordinal numerals
Module:Complex date	Module:I18n/complex date Module:ISOdate Module:Roman Module:Ordinal		Template:Other date (not deployed yet)	Create complex date phrases in many languages

|}