[pmwiki-users] ({*$LastModified}) vs {(ftime fmt="%F" {*$LastModified})}

[Petko Yotov]

On Sunday 20 May 2012 18:47:00 ABClf wrote:
> At first, in template page, I used : {(ftime fmt="%F" {*$LastModified})}
> but, strange for me, it does not work all time : in some cases, it
> just prints out 1970–01–01 ; in other cases it shows the expected
> date.

{*$LastModified} is the time formatted according to the $TimeFmt variable.

If you use {(ftime fmt="%F" "{*$LastModified}")}, note the quotes, the markup 
expression will try to parse (guess) the timestamp from the string, but this 
in some cases will not work, because the format is not standard, or is not in 
English.

You can use {(ftime fmt="%F" "@{*$LastModifiedTime}")} instead, note @.

{*$LastModifiedTime} contains the number of seconds since 1970–01–01 00:00, 
and preceded with @, the markup expression will be parsed without problems to 
the real timestamp.

Petko