Editing DPL3/Parameters: Controlling output format (section)

===userdateformat===

{{DPL parameter
 |name   = userdateformat
 |purpose= Define a special layout for date formatting.
}}

Syntax:

{{DPL syntax|userdateformat=''formatstring''}}

The ''formatstring'' may contain letters like "y,Y,m,M,d,D,h,H,i,I,s" for year, month day. Other characters are printed as they are. See the documentation for php function date() for more details [http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php]. The ''userdateformat'' applies to all date/time fields, see the parameters: {{dpl3|addeditdate}},{{dpl3|addpagetoucheddate}},{{dpl3|addfirstcategorydate}}.

Example:

userdateformat=Y-m-d (D)

Default:

By default DPL uses "Y-m-d H:i:s" to display date and time. Note that MediaWiki stores all dates/times in UTC format. When displaying a time stamp DPL will translate it according to 
# the timezone preference (difference to UTC/GMT) given by the user in his user settings.
# if no preference is given and for all anonymous users the local time on the server will be used.

So you will either see a time based on your local time (browser based) or based on the timezone in which the wiki server is running.

The same kind of translation applies to dates you specify when selecting articles by revsion date/time.