Template:Year

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The {{year}} template provides a standardized notation for years, using either of the two following systems:

• Common Era (Current Era) system: (current configuration)

• ce (Common Era or Current Era) (small caps suffix after space);
• bce (before the Common Era or before the Current Era) (small caps suffix after space),

• Dionysian system:

• bc (“before Christ”) (small caps suffix after space);
• ad (anno Domini, “[the] year of [the] Lord”) (small caps prefix followed by space).

Usage

{{year|year}}

where

• year: nonzero real number (since there is no year 0, gives integer away from 0) with optional era abbreviation (unpunctuated, case insensitive).

Examples

The code {{year|-0.4}} yields 1 bce.

The code {{year|-325}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|-325.4}} yields 326 bce.

The code {{year|325BCE}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|325 BCE}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|325bce}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|325BC}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|325bc}} yields 325 bce.

The code {{year|-325BCE}} yields 325 ce.  (OK: ( − 1) × ( − 1) = +1)

The code {{year|-325.4BCE}} yields 326 ce.  (OK: ( − 1) × ( − 1) = +1)

The code {{year|0.4}} yields 1 ce.

The code {{year|1608}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608.4}} yields 1609 ce.

The code {{year|+1608}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608CE}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608 CE}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608ce}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608AD}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|AD 1608}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|1608ad}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|ad 1608}} yields 1608 ce.

The code {{year|-1608CE}} yields 1608 bce.  (OK: ( − 1) × ( + 1) =  − 1)

The code {{year|-1608.4CE}} yields 1609 bce.  (OK: ( − 1) × ( + 1) =  − 1)

The code {{year|2000 - 32}} yields 1968 ce.

The code {{year|32 - 2000}} yields 1968 bce.

Examples with invalid arguments

The code {{year|0}} yields

The code {{year|25 - 5^2}} yields

The code {{year|nineteen hundred eighty-four}} yields

External links

• Calendar era—Wikipedia.org.
• Common Era—Wikipedia.org.
• Tanya Trusler, Abbreviations for Years: How to Use BC, AD, BCE & CE Correctly, November 5, 2015.
• 9.34: Eras—The Chicago Manual of Style Online © 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017 by The University of Chicago.
• 10.38: Abbreviations for chronological eras—The Chicago Manual of Style Online © 2006, 2007, 2010, 2017 by The University of Chicago.