Template:Monthyear-1/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Monthyear-1.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

The {{Monthyear-1}} template takes no parameters and returns the name of the month and the year as they were a month ago, like this:

{{Monthyear-1}} renders: March 2024

Note that the same date can be shown for up to a week on a page since Wikipedia caches pages and only re-renders them under one of the follow circumstances:

Someone visits the page and it has not been re-rendered in a week;
Someone visits the page and manually purges or edits it.

You can do this yourself[change source]

The code for this template is very simple! Just type

{{#time:F Y|-1 month}}

See here to learn more about time parser functions.

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You can do this yourself[change source]