Template:Start date

Usage

{{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}}

• YYYY – 4-digit year (required)
• MM – 1- or 2-digit month (optional; defaults to 1)
• DD – 1- or 2-digit day (optional; defaults to 1)

The template renders an **inline** date like “April 21, 1994” while the `title` attribute supplies an ISO-8601 machine-readable form (`1994-04-21`) for Microformats (h-event → ).

Examples

Specific day

{{Start date|1991|11|21}} →

November&11b00p;21, 1991

Month & year only

{{Start date|1988|10}} →

October&10b00p;1, 1988

Year only

{{Start date|1978}} →

January&1b00p;1, 1978