date: New plugin that allows inserting date directives that expand to pretty-printed dates, using the same formatting as used for page modification date display, etc.

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/date.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/date.pm
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+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/date.pm
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::date;
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use IkiWiki 3.00;
+
+sub import {
+	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "meta", call => \&getsetup);
+	hook(type => "preprocess", id => "meta", call => \&preprocess);
+}
+
+sub getsetup () {
+	return
+		plugin => {
+			safe => 1,
+			rebuild => undef,
+		},
+}
+
+sub preprocess (@) {
+	my $str=shift;
+
+	eval q{use Date::Parse};
+	error $@ if $@;
+	my $time = str2time($str);
+	if (! defined $time) {
+		error("unable to parse $str");
+	}
+	return displaytime($time);
+}
+
+1