Template:Day-1

October 9

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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 9
{{Day-1|January 1}}	January 2
{{Day-1|January 1||2004}}	January 2, 2004
{{Day-1|January 1, 2004||2004}}	January 2, 2003
{{Day-1|January 1, 2004||2004|_}}	January_2,_2004
{{Day-1|February 28}}	March 1
{{Day-1|February 28|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|2004}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 1, 2004
{{Day-1|March 1}}	March 2
{{Day-1|March 1||2004}}	March 2, 2004
{{Day-1|March 1, 2004}}	March 2
{{Day-1|March 1, 2005}}	March 2
{{day-1|{{day-1}}}}	October 10
{{day-1|{{Currentmonthday}}|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 9, 2026
''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:POTD_row/{{day-1|4=_}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}}&action=edit Edit]''	Edit

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TemplateData for Day-1

Returns the date of yesterday or the previous day of some specified date.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
date	1	A specific date to calculate the previous day, as understood by {{#time}} Default {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} Example March 1, 2004 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTDAY}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	optional
page name	2	A prefix to prepend before the returned date Example Wikipedia:Today's featured article/	String	deprecated
year	3	Include (or repeat) the year to return an MDY date; omit to return just an MD date Example 2004 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	optional
spacing char	4	Separator to replace the spaces in the returned date Default Example _	String	deprecated
days	days	no description Default 1	Number	deprecated

See also

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

For the magic words with the same or similar names, see MediaWikiWiki:Help:Magic words § Date and time.

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) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}} {{Last month}}	{{Monthyear+1}} {{Next month}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}} (Adjustable to 12 h format)	{{CURRENTTIME}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} (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	{{DAYOFWEEK}}	{{CURRENTDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTDAYNAMEABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} (1–7, ISO) {{CURRENTDOW}} (0–6)
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{Last month (short)}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{Next month (short)}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
Millenium	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution

Parser functions

• mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

Individual templates

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

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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