Usage

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This template makes a blue box appear that includes the current time and the number of articles on Wikipedia at this moment. Put this at the top of your user page or your talk page. It is meant as a user space page header.

Note that this template adheres to the preferences of the user viewing the page. If you are comfortable with the American date format (June 22, 2024) but are viewing the Commonwealth format (22 June 2024), then you may change it by going to your preferences, and clicking on the Date and Time tab.

Syntax

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{{Right now
| collapsible = <!-- yes|no -->
| boxcolor    = 
| bordercolor = 
| roundvalue  = <!-- Only works in Mozilla-compatible web browsers -->
| textcolor   =
| width       = <!-- Default: 100% -->
}}

Examples

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{{Right now}}
Today is Saturday, 22 June 2024, and the current time is 12:39 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 6,839,292 articles.
Purge this page for a new update.
{{Right now
| collapsible = yes
| boxcolor    = gray
| bordercolor = black
| roundvalue  = 12
| textcolor   = white
}}
Right now
Today is Saturday, 22 June 2024, and the current time is 12:39 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 6,839,292 articles.
Purge this page for a new update.

See also

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Multiple units of time

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Type Adjustable Current Last Next
Date and time {{time}} {{Currentdate}} (MDY)
{{Plain now}} (DMY)
{{Now}} (DMY in a complete sentence)
{{Simple now}}
Date only {{Dateonly}}
{{Datedow}}
(Has the day of the week)
{{Date}} (Chose format)
{{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)
{{TODAY}} (DMY)
{{Yesterday}}
{{Day-1}}
{{Tomorrow}}
{{Day+1}}
Month and year only {{Monthyear}} {{Monthyear-1}} {{Monthyear+1}}
Time only {{Timeonly}} {{CURRENTTIME}} (12 h format)
{{CURRENTTIME24}} (24 h format)
Banners {{Right now}}
(Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp {{Timestamp}}
(Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Single units of time

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Unit of time Adjustable Current Last Next
SECOND {{CURRENTSECOND}}
MINUTE {{CURRENTMINUTE}}
HOUR {{CURRENTHOUR}}
WEEK {{CURRENTWEEK}}
{{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH}}
Day of Week {{DAYOFWEEK}} {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}
{{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV}}
{{CURRENTWEEKDAY}}
MONTH {{MONTHNAME}}
{{MONTHABBREV}}
{{MONTHNUMBER}}
{{MONTH}} (zero padded)
{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
{{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}}
{{CURRENTMONTH1}}
{{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}
{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{NEXTMONTHNAME}}
Day of Month {{CURRENTDAY}}
{{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
YEAR {{CURRENTYEARCC}}
{{CURRENTYEARYY}}
{{CURRENTISOYEAR}}
{{CURRENTYEAR}}
{{LASTYEAR}} {{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year {{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
DECADE {{DECADE}} {{CURRENTDECADE}}
CENTURY {{CENTURY}} {{CURRENTCENTURY}}
MILLENNIUM {{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution:

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Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces May
{{Nmonth}} produces Jul
{{LastMonth}} produces May 2024
{{NextMonth}} produces July 2024


Individual templates

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Categories of templates

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