Template:Monthyear/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Monthyear.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 55,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

The {{Monthyear}} template takes no parameters and returns the name of the month and the year, like this:

{{Monthyear}} renders: November 2024

Note that the same date can be shown for up to a week on a page since Wikipedia caches pages and only re-renders them under one of the follow circumstances:

Someone visits the page and it has not been re-rendered in a week;
Someone visits the page and manually purges or edits it.

You can do this yourself

The code for this template is very simple! Just type

{{#time:F Y}}

See here to learn more about time parser functions.

See also

You can do this yourself