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Usage
This template is used to automatically generate and populate a template call for Template:Calendar for the month of March for the year specified. If no year is provided, the current year will be used.
Coding notes
- The template determines when a non-date specific event (e.g. fourth Thursday in November) occurs by using the following formula for each possible date that event could occur on:
{{#ifeq: {{#time:l|01 February {{{year|{{LOCALYEAR}}}}}}} | Tuesday |...
In this example, the template is checking to see if the first day of February was a Tuesday, and if so it will insert information about the event (represented by "..." in this example). If an event lasts for more than one day (e.g. Bright Nights) a #switch function is used instead, {{#switch: {{#time:l|01 February {{{year|{{LOCALYEAR}}}}}}} | Tuesday | Wednesday =...
however the logic is essentially the same.
- The calculation of Festivale's date is particularly difficult in that it varies based on Easter, which is determined by a lunisolar calendar. Rather than attempt to calculate Easter's date in a given year and from that value calculate Festivale's date (which is 48 days before Easter), I instead researched Festivale's date for the next 11 years and had the template check if {{{year|{{LOCALYEAR}}}}} matched for that date:
|27 = {{#ifeq: {{{year|{{LOCALYEAR}}}}} | 2017 |...
This is much easier, however it means that the template must be updated sometime in the future to show the correct dates for Festivale in 2028 onward.
