Thanks for your guidance. Indeed, it is much more interesting to store dates
with a format easy to read!
Yet, I still have some difficulties. Here is the value of the variable
ActionDeadline:
(:ActionDeadline: 20080230T1600+0100:)
If I try to display this date with the ftime markup:
* Date: {(ftime %D {$:ActionDeadline})}
I get:
* Date: 01/01/70
What is the problem?
2007/6/17, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:08:51PM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> On 6/17/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:55:55AM -0400, The Editor wrote:
> >>
> >> I still don't like all the changes Pm made to the time function,
> >> specifically to require the @ symbol, but that's how it works in
> >> PmWiki.
> >
> >I felt this was important so that we could reliably distinguish
> >ISO dates (20070617) from UNIX timestamps (@20070617).
>
> Perhaps the problem has
> to do with the lack of documentation. Not sure where to put it though
> as it's not really a ZAP function any longer.
Since ZAP is providing the interface to strtotime(), I think that's
probably a good place to mention the use of @ when using the results
of strtotime with {(ftime)}.
PmWiki itself doesn't expose timestamps to authors, but instead tries
to stick with ISO formats (which have the advantage of being readable
and meaningful to most authors).
And, of course, {(ftime)} will accept any format that strtotime()
accepts, so instead of calling strtotime in the zap form and
storing the result, one could instead just store the human-readable
value directly, and avoid the conversion to a timestamp altogether.
Thus, instead of:
> (:zapform key=AddEvent:)
> (:input text EventYear:)
> (:zap php_EventDate="strtotime|{EventYear}" AddEvent:)
> (:zap EventDate="{php_EventDate}" AddEvent:)
> (:zap savedata="EventDate" AddEvent:)
> (:input submit:)
> (:zapend:)
>
> {(ftime %Y when="{$:EventDate}":)
I would think that one could more easily do something like:
(:zapform key=AddEvent:)
(:input text EventYear:)
(:zap EventDate="{EventYear}" AddEvent:)
(:zap savedata="EventDate" AddEvent:)
(:input submit:)
(:zapend:)
{(ftime %Y when="{$:EventDate}":)
In fact, it seems that one could just save EventYear directly
to the page, and use it directly:
{(ftime %Y when="{$:EventYear}":)
Pm
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