Redigerer Mal:Date/dok (avsnitt)

===Known issues===
; Out-of-range values are "fixed"
* The [[PHP]] library, that this template ultimately depends on, converts out-of-range values to the next-best in-range values. As a result, some date-like values that are not actually valid dates get converted anyway. These include...
** all dates with zero day-of-the-month. Such a "zero-th" day of a month gets converted into the last day of the previous month.<div>For example, <code><nowiki>{{date|June 0, 2006}}</nowiki></code> results in <code>{{date|June 0, 2006}}</code>.</div><div>Similarly, <code><nowiki>{{date|0 January 2006}}</nowiki></code> becomes <code>{{date|0 January 2006}}</code>.</div>
** all dates with day-number values that exceed the number of days in the specified month cause the date to be incremented into the next month.<div>For example, <code><nowiki>{{date|31 November 2008}}</nowiki></code> results in <code>{{date|31 November 2008}}</code>, since November has only 30 days.</div><div>Similarly, <code><nowiki>{{date|February 29, 2007}}</nowiki></code> results in <code>{{date|February 29, 2007}}</code>, since 2007 was not a leap year.</div><div><small>Note: Due to a parser peculiarity in the PHP library, 'December 32' and '32 December' are treated differently, and the latter results in an error (which causes this template to emit it unchanged), and only the former "overflows" into the next month.</small></div>

; Non-Gregorian dates are treated as Gregorian
* The PHP library that this template ultimately depends on assumes that all dates, irrespective of context, are [[Gregorian calendar]] dates. Consequently:
** some dates that would be valid in a non-Gregorian context are treated as out-of-range dates and converted to the next-best in-range values. For example, <code><nowiki>{{date|30 February 1712}}</nowiki></code> results in <code>{{date|30 February 1712}}</code> because – even though 30 February 1712 is a valid date in the Swedish calendar – February 1712 had only 29 days in the Gregorian calendar.
** ten dates are not reformatted. These are 29 February & 1 March of the years 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500. The cause of this is the same as that of the Swedish 30 February 1712.
** some dates that would not be valid in some contexts are converted normally. For example, 29 February 1912 or 1 February 1918 are not valid in a Russian context, but perfectly valid in the Gregorian one.

; ISO 8601 format not suitable for years before 1583
The ISO 8601 standard requires mutual agreement between those using the format to use years earlier than 1583. Since no agreement has been obtained from our readers, that format should not be used for such years, nor for any date not in the Gregorian calendar.

; Output provided for ISO dates when year is missing
The current 2004 version of ISO 8601 does not permit omitting the year, but this template will produce a supposedly ISO output when the year is missing.

; Does not provide Microformats
* [[hCalendar]] and [[hCard]] [[microformat]]s have various date properties, which are not emitted by this template. Use {{Tl|Start date}}, {{Tl|End date}}, {{Tl|Birth date}} or one of their variants, as necessary, in infoboxes which allow microformat-compatible date templates.