Template:Year/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Year. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template returns the current year of a student, or the year a non-student character graduated. It uses the Current Date Template to determine the current date. Enter the Birth year as the first value and the birth month as the second value.

Syntax

{{Year|birthYear|birthmonth}}

The Year template can also take a Hogwarts House specifier. g=Gryffindor, r=Ravenclaw, h=Hufflepuff, s=Slytherin. Also d=Durmstrang Institute, b=Beauxbatons Academy, w=Salem Witches Institute

{{Year|birthYear|birthmonth|firstletterofhouse}}

Example

{{Year|2000|8|g}} returns "Seventh Year Gryffindor" Note: Does not output anything if the age is not old enough to be a student or to have already graduated.

{{Year|1997|8|g}} returns "Gryffindor Graduate (Class of 2015)"

{{Year|1997|9}} returns "Graduate (Class of 2016)"

{{Year|1994|9}} returns "Graduate (Class of 2013)"

{{Year|1990|06}} returns "Graduate (Class of 2008)"

{{Year|1981|7|r}} returns "Ravenclaw Graduate (Class of 1999)"

{{Year|1960|11}} returns "Graduate (Class of 1979)"

Note: If using this to specify a category, must use the house/school specifier, and add 'cat' as a fourth value. {{Year|1981|7|r|cat}} Only use this for when you want the output to be a category tag because all it will out put are two categories, Year and House+Year

The year template uses two subtemplates, Template:Year/calc and Template:Year/grad, to do its calculations. It also makes use of Template:CurrentDate to set the date by which the year is calculated. It uses Template:Name to format the name from the page title for category sorting. It uses Template:House to add the Hogwarts House (or other school) to the year and to make the correct year and house categories.