Template:Right now/doc

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Usage

This template makes a blue box appear that includes the current time, number of articles, number of pages and active users on Wikipedia at this moment. Put this at the top of your user page or your talk page. It is meant as a user space page header.

Note that this template adheres to the preferences of the user viewing the page. If you are comfortable with the American date format (August 5, 2026) but are viewing the Commonwealth format (5 August 2026), then you may change it by going to your preferences, and clicking on the Date and Time tab.

Syntax

{{Right now
| collapsible = <!-- yes|no -->
| boxcolor    = 
| bordercolor = 
| roundvalue  = <!-- Only works in Mozilla-compatible web browsers -->
| textcolor   =
| width       = <!-- Default: 100% -->
}}

Examples

{{Right now}}

Today is Wednesday, 5 August 2026, and the current time is 05:08 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 7,219,351 articles, 66,015,528 pages and 251,364 active users on Wikipedia.
Purge this page for a new update.

{{Right now
| collapsible = yes
| boxcolor    = gray
| bordercolor = black
| roundvalue  = 12
| textcolor   = white
}}

Right now
Today is Wednesday, 5 August 2026, and the current time is 05:08 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 7,219,351 articles, 66,015,528 pages and 251,364 active users on Wikipedia. Purge this page for a new update.


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) {{TODAY}} (DMY)	{{Yesterday}} {{Day-1}}	{{Tomorrow}} {{Day+1}}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear}} {{DATE}} (prefixed by date=)	{{Monthyear-1}} {{Last month}}	{{Monthyear+1}} {{Next month}}
Time only	{{Timeonly}} (Adjustable to 12 h format)	{{CURRENTTIME}} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now}} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} (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}} {{CURRENTDAYNAMEABBREV}} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY}} (1–7, ISO) {{CURRENTDOW}} (0–6)
Month	{{MONTHNAME}} {{MONTHABBREV}} {{MONTHNUMBER}} {{MONTH}} (zero padded)	{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTMONTHABBREV}} {{CURRENTMONTH1}} {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS}}	{{LASTMONTHNAME}} {{Last month (short)}}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME}} {{Next month (short)}}
Day of Month		{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTDAY2}} (zero padded)
Year		{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTYEARCC}} {{CURRENTYEARYY}} {{CURRENTISOYEAR}}	{{LASTYEAR}}	{{NEXTYEAR}}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}}
Decade	{{DECADE}}	{{CURRENTDECADE}}
Century	{{Century}}	{{CURRENTCENTURY}}
Millenium	{{MILLENNIUM}}

Date and time templates made for substitution

Parser functions

mw:Special:MyLanguage/time permits a custom time specifier string, similar to the C date and time functions

Individual templates

Categories of templates

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