Allow certain variables to be substituted in signatures
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	• bzimport
	Nov 1 2005, 11:39 PM

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Author: sns

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The relevant discussion is at the attached URL. The idea was to allow ''at
least'' certain variables, such as CURRENTYEAR, CURRENTMONTH, and CURRENTDAY2 to
be used with subst in user signatures. A very useful application would be a
signature of the form:

[[{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}]]

which would allow timestamps in signatures to be localized according to user
preferences.

While I'm not positive that this is currently impossible, I did test it on my
own account at the en WP, and the templates subst directives were left unparsed.

Version: 1.6.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:HD#Time_in_signature

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Reference: bz3856

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:54 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Templates.

• bzimport set Reference to bz3856.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Nov 1 2005, 11:39 PM

avarab wrote:

We deleberetly use the default option of the content language rather than the
user preference as the date format to maintain a uniform look.

WikiMan wrote:

This could be useful for templates where people want to show the time it was
added (I'm thinking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:No_source).

Super_Magician wrote:

Although I voted for this bug, I should point out that at
[[m:Help:Template#subst]], it is indicated that the subst function is not
suitable for a timestamp.

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