Module:Dating Explained

local p = function p.Dates (frame) local input = mw.text.trim(frame.args[1]) or 0 if input ~= 0 then input = " " .. input .. " " end local xformat = frame.args.format or 0 local xsuffix = frame.args.suffix or 0 local sSuffix = 0 local valid if input ~= 0 then valid = 1 else valid = 0 end local mnths = local yrs = local dts = local i = 1 local j = 1 local k = 1 local valid = 1 local ly = 0 local txt = "" local nums = local m = 1 local Months = for data in string.gmatch (input, "%w+") do data = " " .. data .. " " if data:find ("%s%d%a%a%s") then if tonumber(string.sub(data, 2, 2)) < 32 then dts[i] = tonumber(string.sub(data, 2, 2)) i = i + 1 end end if data:find ("%s%d%d%a%a%s") then if tonumber(string.sub(data, 2, 3)) < 32 then dts[i] = tonumber(string.sub(data, 2, 3)) i = i + 1 end end end if input:find ("%s%d%d%d%d%s") then yrs[k] = tonumber(string.sub(input, input:find ("%s%d%d%d%d%s")+1, input:find ("%s%d%d%d%d%s")+4)) k = k + 1 end for l = 1, 12 do if input:find(string.sub(Months[l], 1, 3)) or input:find(string.lower(string.sub(Months[l], 1, 3))) then mnths[j] = l j = j + 1 end end for data in string.gmatch (input, "%d+") do data = tonumber(data) if data > 31 then yrs[k] = data k = k + 1 else if data > 12 then if #dts

0 then dts[i] = data i = i + 1 else nums[m] = data m = m + 1 end else nums[m] = data m = m + 1 end end end for l = 1, 3 do if nums[l] then if #dts

0 then dts [i] = nums[l] i = i + 1 else if #mnths

0 then mnths [j] = nums[l] j = j + 1 else if #yrs

0 then yrs[k] = nums[l] k = k + 1 end end end end end local date = dts[1] or 0 local month = mnths[1] or 0 local year = yrs[1] or 0 if xformat

0 then if input:find ("/") or input:find ("-") then xformat = "iso" else if input:find (", ") then xformat = "mdy" else xformat = "dmy" end end end if date ~= 0 and year ~= 0 and month

0 then xformat = "year" end if date

0 and year ~= 0 and month

0 then xformat = "year" end if input:find ("uncertain") or input:find("around") or input:find("sometime") then if input:find ("uncertain who") then sSuffix = 2 else sSuffix = 1 end end if xsuffix

0 then if input:find ("year") and input:find ("lord") then xsuffix = "AD" end if input:find ("AD") then xsuffix = "AD" end if input:find ("BC") then xsuffix = "BC" end if input:find ("CE") then xsuffix = "CE" end if input:find ("BCE") then xsuffix = "BCE" end end if xsuffix ~= 0 then if year

0 then if date ~= 0 and month ~= 0 then else if date ~= 0 then year = date xformat = "year" date = 0 end if month ~= 0 then year = month xforamt = "year" month = 0 end end end end if date ~= 0 and year

0 and month

0 then valid = 0 end if month

4 or month

6 or month

9 or month

11 then if date > 30 then valid = 0 end end if year % 100 ~= 0 and year % 4

0 then ly = 1 else if year % 400

0 then ly = 1 end end if month

2 then if ly

1 then if date > 29 then valid = 0 end else if date > 28 then valid = 0 end end end if date

0 and month

0 and year

0 then valid = 0 end if year

0 then for l = 1, 12 do if input:find(string.sub(Months[l], 1, 3)) or input:find(string.lower(string.sub(Months[l], 1, 3))) then valid = 1 break else valid = 0 end end end if valid

0 then txt = "Invalid entry. " else if xformat

"iso" then if year ~= 0 then txt = txt .. year end if month ~= 0 then if month > 10 then txt = txt .. "-" .. month else month = "0" .. month txt = txt .. "-" .. month end end if date ~= 0 then if date > 10 then txt = txt .. "-" .. date else date = "0" .. date txt = txt .. "-" .. date end end end if xformat

"dmy" then if date ~= 0 then txt = txt .. date end if month ~= 0 then txt = txt .. " " .. Months[month] end if year ~= 0 then txt = txt .. " " .. year end end if xformat

"mdy" then if month ~= 0 then txt = txt .. Months[month] end if date ~= 0 then txt = txt .. " " .. date end if year ~= 0 then txt = txt .. ", " .. year end end if xformat

"year" then if year ~= 0 then txt = txt .. year end end if xsuffix ~= 0 then txt = txt .. " " .. xsuffix end if sSuffix ~= 0 then if sSuffix

1 then txt = "c. " .. txt end if sSuffix