[pmwiki-users] [resolved] Re: ftime formatting and time zone offset

[TSgt Marshall Kelly]

I found a resolution to this and the date math issue I had been working
off an on a little while back.

I tried the examples on this site
"http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkupExpressions-Sandbox" and found
that I was not able to get the same results. But I got some real good
hints.

To correct for time zone:
Today is {(ftime '' "+ 2 hours")} Local time (CST)

And by trying %a-z and %A-Z with ftime I was able to farm out the
components that would make the result look like the format that "date"
likes.

I was able to squeeze the stack of if-statements into this:
/*
 * dateOfEntryYYMMDD is in the yyyymmdd format,
 * adding 6 to the month column
 */
(:Anniv6mo: {(ftime %Y%m%d "{$:dateOfEntryYYYYMMDD} +6 month")}:)

Then I use:
(:if:)
blah blah (deleted rest of is and else ifs for brevity)
(:elseif date {$:Anniv6mo}.. :)
 6 Month Milestone
(:ifend:)

Pretty relieved. Had almost pulled the last of my hair! :)
mk


> Message: 4
>
> Hi,
>
> ftime doesn't appear to be responding to fmt. I'd like to change the
> output format and also make the output time reflect local time. The server
> is apparently in PST and I'm in CST (PST + 2).
>
> If I execute the following...:
> {(ftime)}
> {(ftime fmt="%F %H:%M")}
> {(ftime %Y)}
> {(ftime fmt=%T)}
> {(ftime when=tomorrow)}
> {(ftime fmt="%Y-%m-%d" yesterday)}
> {(ftime week %F)}
> {(ftime fmt=%D month)}
> {(ftime fmt="%a%e %b" when="next week")}
>
> I see:
> December 28, 2007, at 06:58 AM
> December 28, 2007, at 06:58 AM
> 2007
> December 28, 2007, at 06:58 AM
> December 28, 2007, at 06:58 AM
> yesterday
> week
> month
> December 28, 2007, at 06:58 AM
>
> I don't have server access but have been told that the MarkupExpressions
> recipe is enabled. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> mk
>
>