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From Historical Hastings
Purpose: Formats date according to user preference. Preference is set with language preference. English-Great Britain (en-gb) gets day-month-year order as well as all other non En languages. If user preference is en, then US/Canada Month-day-year order is used.
Parameter 1: Recognized:
- Year only- no error checks- just passes the value
- Three orders, dependent on delimiter
- Month/Day/Year
- Day Month Year
- Year-Month-Day
- Months may be a number, a month name in english, or a three letter english abbreviation
- Illegal day values identified (February 29 in a non leap year)
Other parameters
- link: If any value besides null, this links the date. If day provided, then first link is to month and day. Otherwise only the year is linked.
| user language | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| wikitext | en | en-gb, es, fr... | |
| 3 Nov 1876}} | November 3, 1876 | 3 November 1876 | |
| November 1876}} | November 1876 | November 1876 | |
| 1876-11-3}} | November 3, 1876 | 3 November 1876 | |
| 11/3/1876}} | November 3, 1876 | 3 November 1876 | |
