{{Show by}} is a wrapper for {{Show by date}} that will automatically display one of two statements based on whether a particular date/time has been reached.
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date/time) is the date and/or time that the template should show the text after. Until that date and time, the text before is shown. The date/time parameter can be in any format accepted by PHP's strtotime() function. See mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23time for more information.text before) is the text to be shown if the current date is before the date specified in the previous parameters; it may be left empty if only the text after needs to be displayed at the specified datetext after) is the text to be shown if the current date is on or after the date specified in the previous parameters; it may be left empty if only the text before needs to be displayed until the specified datedemo=yes) can be used to prevent automatic substitution of the template.This template should always be substituted ({{subst:Show by}}). This will insert the {{Show by date}} template using separate parameters for year, month, date, and time.
The {{ show by date}} template inserted by this template is particularly useful on low-activity articles where dated statements may not receive prompt attention. A WP:BOT, User:AnomieBOT, will substitute the {{Show by date}} template with just the text after as the given dates elapse.
20 December 2000) and relative (e.g. +20 hours) times, but relative times should only be used if the template is manually substituted. If the template is bot substituted, the time will be relative to the time that the bot edited the page.date/time specifies a time zone, statements will be switched on the date according to Wikipedia time (00:00 UTC). If the actual event point is a few hours before or after this, it probably makes little difference in the grander scheme of time. However, it will make a significant difference if the actual event is more than 12 hours before or after this. For example, an event that takes place on September 22 at 8:00 pm Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00) corresponds to 04:00, September 23 (UTC).text before nor the text after may begin or end with whitespace. Workarounds include using an escape code for space ( ), using a non-breaking space ( ), or including invisible markup (e.g. <nowiki/>) to prevent the spaces from being stripped (see example below).text before or text after contains an "=" or "|" character that is not inside another template invocation, use the templates {{=}} or {{!}}.{{Update|inaccurate=y}} is used to mark an article whose factual accuracy may be compromised (although this may be disputed) due to out of date information. This template adds the article to Category:Articles with obsolete information.