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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/date.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df45fa840 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The `date` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/date desc=date]] plugin. + +This directive can be used to display a date on a page, using the same +display method that is used to display the modification date in the page +footer, and other dates in the wiki. This can be useful for consistency +of display, or if you want to embed parseable dates into the page source. + +Like the dates used by the [[meta]] directive, the date can be entered in +nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[!cpan TimeDate]]. + +For example, an update to a page with an embedded date stamp could look +like: + + Updated \[[!date "Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:11:55 -0500"]]: mumble mumble diff --git a/doc/plugins/date.mdwn b/doc/plugins/date.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8dbdfee5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/date.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +[[!template id=plugin name=date author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/meta]] + +This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/date]] +[[ikiwiki/directive]], which provides a way to display an arbitrary date +in a page. |