[Wikipedia-l] Re: Date Formats

[Ray Saintonge]

James R. Johnson wrote:

>I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can
>format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or
>[[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case
>the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day,
>thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the
>day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System
>messages.
>
ISO format is 2005-10-24.i.e. yyyy-mm-dd

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