[pmwiki-users] {(...)} markup recipe available

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:28:38AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> > I've been using the {(time)} markup, now changed to {(ftime)} by Pm.
> > But can no longer get it to produce a pure timestamp.  Wish that had
> > been the default.  
> 
> ...
> There's always:
> 
>     $FmtPV['$Now'] = $Now;

Actually, presuming that one wants to get unix timestamps from
a variety of date and time formats, I'd propose making it explicit 
with an expression name like 'timestamp', 'tstamp', 'unixtime', 
'mktime', or something like that.  For example:

    $MarkupExpr['tstamp'] = 'ME_ftime("%s", $args[0], $argp)';

Then you get

    {(tstamp)}                now
    {(tstamp tomorrow)}       24 hours from now
    {(tstamp 2007-04-16)}     April 16, 2007
    {(tstamp '-3 hours')}     3 hours ago

and the expression name leaves little confusion about 
what will be produced.

2.2.0-beta44 also introduces an $FTimeFmt variable, which allows
an administrator to set the default format for {(ftime ...)} .
(If not set, it defaults to $TimeFmt.)

Pm