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This template is intended to visually indicate an age associated with some text via the background color. The text is redder every year after the given date and fully red if the date is 4 years past. This can be useful, for example, for repetitive tasks in to-do lists to see what items haven't had editor attention for a while if users update the date every time they complete the task.

The template currently has five colored tiers:

default background
younger than 1 year
lightyellow background
older than 365 days (1 year) but less than 2 years
yellow background
older than 730 days (2 year) but less than 3 years
orange background
older than 1095 days (3 years) but less than 4 years
red background
older than 1460 days (4 years)

Example usage

{{Color by age|July 4, 2012|This is some example text.|note=This is an optional note for the tooltip.}}

which will render as

This is some example text.

because the specified date is old enough to trigger the red background color. It also uses the optional note that is appended to the tooltip.