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diff --git a/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn index 26f293b86..c14c54869 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Set_arbitrary_date_to_be_used_by_calendar_plugin.mdwn @@ -6,44 +6,6 @@ Here's a patch to the calendar plugin. If you specify an event preprocessor in a That date will be used instead of the post creation time when displaying the calendar. -> Thanks for coming up with a patch.. Let me make sure I understand its -> rationalle. -> -> The meta plugin already allows modifying the page creation time, -> which is what the calendar plugin uses. -> -> So, it seems to me that the use of this patch is for recording events in -> the future. You'd not want a page for a future event to claim it was -> created in the future. I suppose you could also use it for events in the -> past, if you didn't want to change the creation time for some reason. -> (Perhaps you're doing a calendar of historical events, for example.) -> -> Accurate? --[[Joey]] - ->> Thanks for the feedback. Thinking about what you said ... I suspect my patch ->> doesn't belong in the calendar plugin, which does a very specific thing ->> (create a calendar to show when blog posts were created). I'm really angling ->> toward an event calendar (as mentioned on [[todo/plugin]]). I'd like to preserve ->> the page creation time - which is useful and important information in its own right ->> - and be able to generate a calendar with links to particular posts that will show ->> up on the calendar based on an arbitrary date. Perhaps this should be re-considered ->> as a separate plugin? --[[Jamie]] - ->>> I think it makes sense to have only one calendar, if possible. ->>> I think your event stuff is fine, the only thing we might want to add ->>> is a config option for the calendar, to control whether it looks at the ->>> event date, or the creation date. --[[Joey]] - ->>>> Ok - I can work on that. One question - the existing calendar module has it's own ->>>> functions for building an html display of a calendar. HTML::CalendarMonth seems to ->>>> provide that functionality. My instincts are to rip out the code in the calendar plugin ->>>> and use the existing module. On the other hand, that creates added dependencies. ->>>> Suggestions anyone? --[[Jamie]] - ->>>>> I'm all for ripping code out of ikiwiki where CPAN can be used, as ->>>>> long as the resulting code and html are good. --[[Joey]] - - --- calendar.pm.orig 2008-06-24 22:36:09.000000000 -0400 +++ calendar.pm 2008-06-24 22:51:11.000000000 -0400 @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ |