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{{May be substituted}}<br />
{{template redirect|Today|Today's date|Today (dmy)|Today in dmy format|CURRENTDMY|Currentdaymonthyear}}<br />
{{tsh|tdy|pre=subst:}}<br />
{{tl|TODAY}} returns the current date, in [[UTC]] time, as typical dmy format.<br />
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Please be sure to study {{section link|Help:Substitution|Limitation}} before using this template in references or VisualEditor.<br />
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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:<br />
# Someone visits the page and it has not been re-rendered in a week; <br />
# Someone visits the page and manually [[Wikipedia:Purge|purges]] or edits it.<br />
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== Usage ==<br />
=== Syntax ===<br />
* {{tlx|TODAY}} or {{tlx|tdy}}<br />
* {{tlsx|TODAY}} or {{tlsx|tdy}} for a substituted date.<br />
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=== Implementation ===<br />
{{tlx|TODAY}} expands to:<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"><br />
{{safesubst:#time:j F Y}}<br />
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produces:<br />
{{TODAY}}<br />
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Today's day month year, in that order (DMY) with the month written out.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Help:Time function]], about using the #time [[wp:parser function|parser function]]<br />
{{Date and time templates}}<br />
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[[Category:Date-computing templates based on current time]]<br />
[[Category:Time, date and calendar templates]]<br />
[[Category:Wikipedia magic word templates]]<br />
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