Help:Date format

There are 7 date formatting templates.

{{Date format}} {{Date format2}} {{Date format3}} {{Date format4}} {{Date format5}} {{Date format6}} {{Date format7}}

All date formatting templates are wrappers for the time function.

This table shows how each one formats a given date. In the table they are all formatting 4/25/2007.

Template	4/25/2007 Formatted output	Description
{{Date format2}}	04	zero-padded month number
{{Date format3}}	2007	4-digit year
{{Date format4}}	25	zero-padded day of the month
{{Date format5}}	April	full month name
{{Date format6}}	April 25, 2007	full month name, day of the month not zero-padded, and 4-digit year. (time code F j, Y)
{{Date format}}	April 25, 2007	same as above, except links to schedule page
{{Date format7}}	April 2007	full month name and 4-digit year. links to schedule page

Do note that {{Date format}} and {{Date format7}} make wiki links to their corresponding schedule page.