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Tech News: 2024-43

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A new {{#timef:…}} parser function has been added, to allow users to more easily format dates in different languages. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "14 October 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [1][2]

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