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For full details on how to format simple and complex dates and ranges, see WP:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § Chronological items. Beyond the first paragraph of the lead section, birth and death details should only be included after a name if there is special contextual relevance.
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. Template parameters ...
If birth date is BC, set to "b". – (optional) gregorian: If Julian date is used, this parameter is required. The date provided is used for emitting the correct microformat translation of the birth date. parm 1 (optional) dt: This value if present is the ISO8601 value emitted to indicate microformat birth date. It overrides any calculated value.
{}, {}, {}, and {} are easy to read "plain text" date and time templates that emit microformat dates for events. These templates are an alternative to the {{ Start date }} / {{ Birth date }} and {{ End date }} / {{ Death date }} templates that also emit microformats but require dates to be expressed in standard, unambiguous and international ...
The templates {{Birth year and age}} and {{Death year and age}} return a person's year of birth or death and their approximate age. The templates are useful when only the year, or year and month, of a person's birth and/or death are known, or if it is desired not to state a person's full dates of birth and death for privacy reasons.
Note that using the date formatting feature in section headers complicates section linking, see date formatting. In article titles dates will not be converted. It is generally preferable to use the format used by local English speakers at the location of the event. For events outside North America that is usually 11 February 2004 (no comma).
Template:Birth date will return a person's date of birth. 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 ...
The time 00:00 refers to midnight at the start of a date, 12:00 to noon, and 24:00 to midnight at the end of a date, but 24 should not be used for the first hour of the next day (e.g. use 00:10 for ten minutes after midnight, not 24:10).