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{{day-1}} subtracts one from a date or date-specific pagename

Usage

{{Day-1}} - returns yesterday's date

{{Day-1|date}} - returns the day before the 'date' passed

{{Day-1|date|pagename|year|spacingchar}} - returns the name of the page one day before the 'datepage' passed in

Example

Code	Result
`{{Day-1}}`	November 25
`{{Day-1\|February 28}}`	February 27
`{{Day-1\|February 28\|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/\|2004}}`	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 27, 2004
`{{day-1\|{{day-1}}}}`	November 24
`{{day-1\|{{Currentmonthday}}\|Wikipedia:Today's featured article/\|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}`	Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 25, 2024
`''[http://wiki.riteme.site/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:POTD_row/{{day-1\|4=_}},_{{CURRENTYEAR}}&action=edit Edit]''`	Edit

Multiple units of time


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


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:

Month:
{{Lmonth}} produces Oct
{{Nmonth}} produces Dec
{{Last month}} produces October 2024
{{Next month}} produces December 2024

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