This is a wild-card template created based on this Redirects for discussion thread, intended to intuitively adapt to various "use x" templates. It uses the {{#switch:}} parser function.

Usage edit

{{Use|abc|date=MM YYYY}}

  • abc represents an accepted abbreviation from the table below. The country codes are based on the two-letter ISO country codes.
  • MM YYYY represents the full month and year, such as "January 2001".

For example, {{Use|tt|date=January 2001}} returns {{Use Trinidad and Tobago English|date=January 2001}}.

Note: This template accepts only one code at a time. Codes for date formats and English varieties must be supplied in separate calls of the template.

Accepted abbreviations
Code Outputs Country
mdy {{Use mdy dates}}
dmy {{Use dmy dates}}
au {{Use Australian English}} Australia
bd {{Use Bangladeshi English}} Bangladesh
ca {{Use Canadian English}} Canada
gb {{Use British English}} United Kingdom
gh {{Use Ghanaian English}} Ghana
hi, ir {{Use Hiberno-English}} Ireland
hk {{Use Hong Kong English}} Hong Kong
in {{Use Indian English}} India
jm {{Use Jamaican English}} Jamaica
ke {{Use Kenyan English}} Kenya
lr {{Use Liberian English}} Liberia
ng {{Use Nigerian English}} Nigeria
nz {{Use New Zealand English}} New Zealand
pk {{Use Pakistani English}} Pakistan
ph {{Use Philippine English}} Philippines
sg {{Use Singapore English}} Singapore
sa, za {{Use South African English}} South Africa
lk {{Use Sri Lankan English}} Sri Lanka
tt {{Use Trinidad and Tobago English}} Trinidad and Tobago
tz {{Use Tanzanian English}} Tanzania
ug {{Use Ugandan English}} Uganda
us {{Use American English}} United States