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This template returns the name of the month whose number is in parameter. Alternatively, the English month name or abbreviation (with any letter case) can be given.
Syntax
- {{MONTHNAME|month}}
- The month value is interpreted modulo 12 (extra leading zeroes and decimals are ignored).
Compatibility synonym
- {{month name|month}}
Examples for all standard month numbers
- {{MONTHNAME|1}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|2}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|3}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|4}} returns April
- {{MONTHNAME|5}} returns May
- {{MONTHNAME|6}} returns June
- {{MONTHNAME|7}} returns July
- {{MONTHNAME|8}} returns August
- {{MONTHNAME|9}} returns September
- {{MONTHNAME|10}} returns October
- {{MONTHNAME|11}} returns November
- {{MONTHNAME|12}} returns December
Examples for month numbers with extra leading zero
- {{MONTHNAME|01}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|02}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|03}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|04}} returns April
- {{MONTHNAME|05}} returns May
- {{MONTHNAME|06}} returns June
- {{MONTHNAME|07}} returns July
- {{MONTHNAME|08}} returns August
- {{MONTHNAME|09}} returns September
Examples for month number cyclic underflows and overflows, from computed values
- {{MONTHNAME|-12}} returns December
- {{MONTHNAME|-11}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|-10}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|-9}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|-3}} returns September
- {{MONTHNAME|-2}} returns October
- {{MONTHNAME|-1}} returns November
- {{MONTHNAME|0}} returns December
- {{MONTHNAME|13}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|14}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|15}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|16}} returns April
- {{MONTHNAME|23}} returns November
- {{MONTHNAME|24}} returns December
- {{MONTHNAME|25}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|1200}} returns December
- {{MONTHNAME|1201}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|1212}} returns December
Examples for all standard English month names
- {{MONTHNAME|JANUARY}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|FEBRUARY}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|MARCH}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|APRIL}} returns April
- {{MONTHNAME|MAY}} returns May
- {{MONTHNAME|JUNE}} returns June
- {{MONTHNAME|JULY}} returns July
- {{MONTHNAME|AUGUST}} returns August
- {{MONTHNAME|SEPTEMBER}} returns September
- {{MONTHNAME|OCTOBER}} returns October
- {{MONTHNAME|NOVEMBER}} returns November
- {{MONTHNAME|DECEMBER}} returns December
Examples for all abbreviated English month names
- {{MONTHNAME|jan}} returns January
- {{MONTHNAME|feb}} returns February
- {{MONTHNAME|mar}} returns March
- {{MONTHNAME|apr}} returns April
- {{MONTHNAME|may}} returns May
- {{MONTHNAME|jun}} returns June
- {{MONTHNAME|jul}} returns July
- {{MONTHNAME|aug}} returns August
- {{MONTHNAME|sep}} returns September
- {{MONTHNAME|oct}} returns October
- {{MONTHNAME|nov}} returns November
- {{MONTHNAME|dec}} returns December
See also
[] all subsections that follow:
Multiple units of time
| Type | Adjustable | Current | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date and Time | {{time}} | {{Currentdate}} (MDY) {{Plain now}} (DMY) {{Now}} (Plan now in as sentence) |
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| 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) |
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| Banners | {{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles) {{Right now (User message)}} (Orange with time and number of Wikipedia articles |
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| Timestamp | {{Timestamp}} (Format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS) |
Single units of time
| Unit of time | Adjustable | Current | Last | Next |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SECOND | {{CURRENTSECOND}} | |||
| MINUTE | {{CURRENTMINUTE}} | |||
| HOUR | {{Currenthour}} | {{Hour-1}} | {{Hour+1}} | |
| WEEK | {{CURRENTWEEKOFYEAR}} {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}} |
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| Day of Week | {{Dow}} | {{CURRENTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} |
{{LASTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{LASTWEEKDAYABBREV}} |
{{NEXTWEEKDAYNAME}} {{NEXTWEEKDAYABBREV}} |
| MONTH | {{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded) |
{{Currentmonth}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTHNUMBER}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}} |
{{LASTMONTH}} (Can make not zero-padded) {{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{LASTMONTHABBR}} |
{{NEXTMONTH}} (Can make not zero-padded) {{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{NEXTMONTHABBR}} |
| Day of Month | {{Currentday}} | |||
| YEAR | {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} |
{{LASTYEAR}} | {{NEXTYEAR}} | |
| Day of Year | {{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}} | |||
| CENTURY | {{CENTURY}} | {{CURRENTCENTURY}} | {{LASTCENTURY}} | {{NEXTCENTURY}} |
| MILLENNIUM | {{MILLENNIUM}} | {{Currentmillennium}} |
Date and time Templates made for substitution:
Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Oct
{{Nmonth}} produces Dec
{{LastMonth}} produces October 2024
{{NextMonth}} produces December 2024
Individual Templates
- {{Calendar}}
- {{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats}}
- {{Clock}}
- {{Digital clock}}
- {{Digital clock and date}}
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
- Category:Clock templates
