From df75c5b93a1067461b649e48cc62d4c7f4d18ec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:18:43 -0500 Subject: 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. --- doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/ikiwiki/directive/date.mdwn (limited to 'doc/ikiwiki/directive') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3