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This template displays the current UTC year, month, day, and time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM format. It is most useful in User pages, when you want to display the current time. It generally should not be used in articles, since a fixed time is usually desirable. It does not display on talk pages, where a fixed time stamp is needed.
Template: Current time. 12 languages. ... -> Current time for UTC-5 is 16:07 This page was last edited on 1 November 2022, at 19:58 (UTC). Text is available ...
This template is a partial self-reference because it uses an equation to calculate the date and time. However, this date and time is easily verifiable and so is part of the encyclopedic content. If you wish for the reference to appear this template should be substituted onto pages it appears on.
This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.
Various utility templates used to compute dates and time values. Despite their internal design, they are built for maximum reusability in various contexts, so the syntax to use them is very simple, and each of these templates is documented with examples of use and return values.
The time is calculated based on the offset from UTC for the specified time zone taking into account whether daylight saving time is currently active in that time zone. Note: Most Wikipedia pages display a cached version of the page to reduce server load, so the template will only display the current time as of when the page was last parsed .
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daylight savings use = The use of daylight saving in the timezone, city etc (all, some, none) text = The text you want displayed (default Current time) The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Current time box/doc .