[pmwiki-users] date math

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Oct 24 20:47:50 CDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:44:21PM -0700, TSgt Marshall Kelly wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Hope you don't mind another question.
> 
> I've gotten "(:if date yyyymmdd..:) execThisCode (:ifend:)" to work, and I
> can use the "math" function.
> 
> But how can I use the current value of date in a math equation. I'd like
> to determine if it's been X days since some event.

Doing math on dates and times can be a bit tricky.

You might be able to do something like

    (:if date ..-3days :)

to see if something occurred more than 3 days ago.

Pm



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