[pmwiki-users] New {$$ } and {( )} markups [Was: Can any of the form recipes do this?]

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:01:16PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> 
> Having {(date ..)} and {(time ...)} markup will mean it can be used in
> pages, like PageVariables?

Yes.

> That will make a lot of specialised date
> and time PVs unnecessary. But it would be good to allow some
> addition/subtraction math for setting future/past time events.

Perhaps the general form is:

    {(strftime "fmt" "time")}

with {(date ...)} being a shortcut for {(strftime "%Y-%m-%d" ...)}

Then we have:

    {(date)}               # 2007-04-03
    {(date yesterday)}     # 2007-04-02
    {(date "-7 days")}     # 2007-03-27
    {(date "March 13"})    # 2007-03-13

The "time" arguments would be any ISO-8601 format, with a fallback to
PHP's strtotime() function for anything that isn't in ISO-8601.

What do we want {(time)} to output?

Pm