[pmwiki-users] Highlight pagelist search results based on time thresholds

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Sun Jul 13 17:53:04 CDT 2008


Sunday, July 13, 2008, 11:37:19 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> Might need to be careful with something like  -30days...-8days,
> as it's not entirely clear that -8days as an endpoint would
> be the exact same moment in time that -7days.. produces.
> I.e., there could be some overlap or gaps.

> I'm not saying it doesn't work -- I'd just test it carefully
> with pages at or near the boundaries.

You are right. I am more comfortable using math comparisons
from Cookbook/ConditionalExtensions, ie.
(:if lt ... rather than (:if date ....
Certainly less ambiguous, less room for error.
But  'date' conditionals look so invitingly simple to use...


  ~Hans




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