Template:Start date/doc

This purpose of the start date template is to return the date (or date-time) that an event or entity started or was created, and to do so in a standard format. It also includes duplicate, machine-readable date (or date-time) in the ISO date format (which is hidden by CSS), for use inside other templates (or table rows) which emit microformats. It should be used only once in each such template and never used outside such templates. The hidden date degrades gracefully when CSS is not available.


 * Examples
 * → "1993"
 * → "February 1993"
 * → "February 24, 1993"
 * → "08:30, February 24, 1993"
 * → "February 24, 1993 (+01:00)"
 * → "February 24, 1993 (-07:00)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (UTC)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (+01:00)"
 * → "08:30:23, February 24, 1993 (-07:00)"