| May 3 in recent years |
| 2024 (Friday) |
| 2023 (Wednesday) |
| 2022 (Tuesday) |
| 2021 (Monday) |
| 2020 (Sunday) |
| 2019 (Friday) |
| 2018 (Thursday) |
| 2017 (Wednesday) |
| 2016 (Tuesday) |
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Description
This template is used to display a box on all of the date articles (January 1 ... December 31) listing the date in recent years. It also shows what day of the week the date was in previous years.
Usage
- No parameter
- This template can be used on without any parameter.
- {{
This date in recent years}}
- On date articles the template defaults to the page name.
- On other articles the template defaults to the current date.
- {{
- Specifying a date
- A specific date can be input as an unnamed parameter in either day-month or month-day format.
- {{
This date in recent years|January 1}} - {{
This date in recent years|1 January}}
- {{
- Float left
- The default of the template is to float right. The template can be placed on the left using the
floatparameter.- {{
This date in recent years|float=left}} - {{
This date in recent years|January 1|float=left}} - {{
This date in recent years|1 January|float=left}}
- {{
Technical details
This template uses a series of subtemplates. These are listed below.
- next step
- Template:This date in recent years/validate (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- then
- Template:This date in recent years/title (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 29 February split
-
- Template:This date in recent years/table (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for ordinary dates)
- or
- Template:This date in recent years/prevleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February)
- Template:This date in recent years/1stleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February),
- Template:This date in recent years/2ndleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February),
- Template:This date in recent years/3rdleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February),
- Template:This date in recent years/4thleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February),
- Template:This date in recent years/5thleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February),
- Template:This date in recent years/6thleap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (for 29 February)
and