Help:Date formatting and linking

The $wgUseDynamicDates feature was removed completely in MediaWiki version 1.21.0. (February 2013)

Note that the linking of dates in Wikipedia articles is discouraged in most cases. For guidance, see WP:Linking#Chronological items.

The date formatting feature (autoformatting of dates), enabled by setting $wgUseDynamicDates to true, applies to linked dates in certain formats. It can cause link targets and/or the appearance to be different from what would follow from the general wikitext syntax. Also, the appearance depends on the preference setting for the date format. The latter also affects dates and times produced by the system in Recent Changes etc.