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The {{Currentmonthday}} template takes no parameters and returns the current month name and the current day of the month, like this:
{{Currentmonthday}}renders: November 21
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.
See also
- {{Currentdaymonth}} – renders this: 21 November
You can do this yourself
The code for this template is very simple! Just type
{{#time:F j}}
See here to learn more about time parser functions.