On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Apoc 2400apoc2400@gmail.com wrote:
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{{Birth date and age}} is a rather popular template we use to show a persons birth date and automatically calculate the current age. It allows us to provide this without having to update it every year. I guess some developers hate us for doing something like that in wikicode, but hey, it works. The only problem it that it's hard to read in the article code. It is used as {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|mf=yes}}. If we had the StringFunctions extension enabled it could be simplified to take dates like 1993-02-04 rather than 1993|2|4. Perhaps it could even take plain text dates like "February 4, 1993". If we had the variables extension one could specify the dateformat (month or day first) in one place in the article and template like {{Birth date and age}} would follow.
I think we *already* have templates that can take February 4, 1993 (or something similar). They had some weird name, similar to the current templates, but slightly different. I can't find them right now, but maybe someone else remembers them?
Carcharoth