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=== Syntax ===

:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|year of birth|month of birth|day of birth|additional parameters}}</nowiki></code>

'''This form is only intended for living persons.''' In the rare case that a living person's birth date is given in a non-Gregorian calendar this template should not be used. The parameter names 'year', 'month', and 'day' can be used instead of the first, second, and third parameters for 'Birth date and age' only. These parameter names are not available for the 'Birth date' template.

Examples:

:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|mf=yes}}</nowiki></code> returns {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|mf=yes}}
:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|df=yes}}</nowiki></code> returns {{Birth date and age|1993|2|4|df=yes}}
:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|mf=yes}}</nowiki></code> returns {{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|mf=yes}}
:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|df=yes}}</nowiki></code> returns {{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|df=yes}}

==== Month First (mf) and Day First (df) options ====

The '''df''' (day first) and '''mf''' (month first) parameters indicate the intended date format to display. The appropriate parameter should be set to "y" or "yes" e.g. '''df=yes''' or '''mf=y'''.

The default output of this template is to display the month before the day. This default may not be appropriate for articles about people from parts of the world where the day precedes the month in a date. In such articles the parameter, "df", should be set to display the day before the month.

The parameter "mf", while not actually used by the template, will indicate that month first format is intended. Using these parameters can assist [[WP:BOT|bots]] or other automated processing to detect which date format is intended; leaving the format as default may lead an editor or bot to change the format to an unintended value.

Do not specify both "df" and "mf" parameters in the same use of the template, as these formats are mutually exclusive.

Examples:

:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|df=yes}}</nowiki></code> displays "{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|df=yes}}".

:<code><nowiki>{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|mf=yes}}</nowiki></code> displays "{{Birth date and age|1993|2|24|mf=yes}}".

=== hCard microformat ===

The templates also returns the date, hidden by CSS, in the [[wikipedia:ISO 8601|ISO 8601]] ''format'' (but not necessarily to the ISO 8601 ''standard'') needed by [[wikipedia:hCard|hCard microformat]]s. for example:

:<code><nowiki>(<span class="bday">1993-02-24</span>)</nowiki></code>

See [[wp:WikiProject Microformats|the microformats project]] for details.

=== See also ===
* {{tl|Age}}
* {{tl|Age in years and days}}
* {{tl|MONTHNAME}}
* {{tl|MONTHNUMBER}}

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[[de:Vorlage:Alter in Jahren und Tagen]]
[[es:Plantilla:Fecha de nacimiento y edad]]
[[fr:Modèle:Date de naissance]]
[[ja:テンプレート:Birth date and age]]
[[nl:Sjabloon:Birth date and age]]
[[pt:Predefinição:Data de nascimento e idade]]
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[[de:Vorlage:Alter in Jahren und Tagen/Dokumentation]]
[[fr:Modèle:Date de naissance/doc]]
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[[nl:Sjabloon:Birth date and age/doc]]
[[pt:Predefinição:Data de nascimento e idade/doc]]
[[ru:Шаблон:День рождения/док]]
[[th:แม่แบบ:Birth date and age/doc]]
[[uk:Шаблон:Дата народження і вік/док]]
[[zh:Template:Birth date and age/doc]]
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