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This template returns the cyclic integer month number (between 1 and 12) of the month whose real number is in parameter. Alternatively, the month can be given with its English name (complete or abbreviated to 3 characters, with capitals or small letters).

Syntax

{{MONTHNUMBER|month}}

The month value is interpreted modulo 12 (extra leading zeroes are ignored, negative numbers are accepted, all numbers are rounded to floor).

Examples for all standard English month names

{{MONTHNUMBER|january}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|february}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|march}} returns 3

{{MONTHNUMBER|april}} returns 4

{{MONTHNUMBER|may}} returns 5

{{MONTHNUMBER|june}} returns 6

{{MONTHNUMBER|july}} returns 7

{{MONTHNUMBER|august}} returns 8

{{MONTHNUMBER|september}} returns 9

{{MONTHNUMBER|october}} returns 10

{{MONTHNUMBER|november}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|december}} returns 12

Examples for all abbreviated English month names

{{MONTHNUMBER|jan}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|feb}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|mar}} returns 3

{{MONTHNUMBER|apr}} returns 4

{{MONTHNUMBER|may}} returns 5

{{MONTHNUMBER|jun}} returns 6

{{MONTHNUMBER|jul}} returns 7

{{MONTHNUMBER|aug}} returns 8

{{MONTHNUMBER|sep}} returns 9

{{MONTHNUMBER|oct}} returns 10

{{MONTHNUMBER|nov}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|dec}} returns 12

Examples for all standard month numbers

{{MONTHNUMBER|1}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|2}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|3}} returns 3

{{MONTHNUMBER|4}} returns 4

{{MONTHNUMBER|5}} returns 5

{{MONTHNUMBER|6}} returns 6

{{MONTHNUMBER|7}} returns 7

{{MONTHNUMBER|8}} returns 8

{{MONTHNUMBER|9}} returns 9

{{MONTHNUMBER|10}} returns 10

{{MONTHNUMBER|11}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|12}} returns 12

Examples for month numbers with extra leading zero

{{MONTHNUMBER|01}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|02}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|03}} returns 3

{{MONTHNUMBER|04}} returns 4

{{MONTHNUMBER|05}} returns 5

{{MONTHNUMBER|06}} returns 6

{{MONTHNUMBER|07}} returns 7

{{MONTHNUMBER|08}} returns 8

{{MONTHNUMBER|09}} returns 9

Examples for month number underflows and overflows, from computed values

{{MONTHNUMBER|-1200}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|-1201}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|-1212}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|-12}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|-11}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|-10}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|-9}} returns 3

{{MONTHNUMBER|-8}} returns 4

{{MONTHNUMBER|-7}} returns 5

{{MONTHNUMBER|-6}} returns 6

{{MONTHNUMBER|-5}} returns 7

{{MONTHNUMBER|-4}} returns 8

{{MONTHNUMBER|-3}} returns 9

{{MONTHNUMBER|-2}} returns 10

{{MONTHNUMBER|-1}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|-0.9999}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|-0.5}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|-0.0001}} returns 11

{{MONTHNUMBER|0}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|0.0001}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|0.5}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|0.9999}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|12.0001}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|12.5}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|12.9999}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|13}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|14}} returns 2

{{MONTHNUMBER|24}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|1200}} returns 12

{{MONTHNUMBER|1201}} returns 1

{{MONTHNUMBER|1212}} returns 12

Example for invalid month name

{{MONTHNUMBER|xx}} returns Expression error: Unrecognized word "xx".


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) {{DATE }} (prefixed by date=) {{TODAY }} (DMY)	{{Yesterday }} {{Day-1 }}	{{Tomorrow }} {{Day+1 }}
Month and year only		{{Monthyear }}	{{Monthyear-1 }}	{{Monthyear+1 }}
Time only	{{Timeonly }}	{{CURRENTTIME }} (12 h format) {{CURRENTTIME24 }} (24 h format)
Banners		{{Right now }} (Blue with time and number of Wikipedia articles)
Timestamp		{{Timestamp }} (Format YYYYMMDDhhmmss)

Single units of time


Unit of time	Adjustable	Current	Last	Next
SECOND		{{CURRENTSECOND }}
MINUTE		{{CURRENTMINUTE }}
HOUR		Template:Mwl
WEEK		Template:Mwl {{CURRENTWEEKOFMONTH }}
Day of Week	{{DAYOFWEEK }}	Template:Mwl {{CURRENTWEEKDAYABBREV }} {{CURRENTWEEKDAY }}
MONTH	{{MONTHNAME }} {{MONTHABBREV }} {{MONTHNUMBER }} {{MONTH }} (zero padded)	Template:Mwl Template:Mwl Template:Mwl {{CURRENTMONTHDAYS }}	{{LASTMONTHNAME }}	{{NEXTMONTHNAME }}
Day of Month		Template:Mwl Template:Mwl (zero padded)
YEAR		{{CURRENTYEARCC }} {{CURRENTYEARYY }} {{CURRENTISOYEAR }} Template:Mwl	{{LASTYEAR }}	{{NEXTYEAR }}
Day of Year		{{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR }}
DECADE	{{DECADE }}	{{CURRENTDECADE }}
CENTURY	{{CENTURY }}	{{CURRENTCENTURY }}
MILLENNIUM	{{MILLENNIUM }}

Date and time templates made for substitution:

Month:
{{Lmonth }} produces Template:Lmonth
{{Nmonth }} produces Template:Nmonth
{{LastMonth }} produces Template:LastMonth
{{NextMonth }} produces Template:NextMonth

Individual templates

{{Calendar }}
{{Calendar clock with Wikipedia stats }}
{{Clock }}
{{Digital clock }}
{{Digital clock and date }}

Categories of templates