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Friendly Time Plugin

   5 January 2005, the wee hours

I’ve written plugin implements the idea discussed by Dunstan on his personal blog about displaying the time a post was published in a friendly manner. Simply place the <txp:rsx_time_of_day /> tag in an article template form and it will print out the time in a friendlier manner. For example, 12:00 will get turned into “lunch time”. I’ve basically copied his code verbatim. You can go and change what is output by editing the switch statement.

Download the plugin: rsx_time_of_day.txt

update: Bug Fix, $timeoffset was not declared as a global variable.

 

Comments

  1. “You da man!”

    by valdok on August 16 2004, 2:56 am   #

  2. Thanks again for implementing this :)

    Jay

    by trip on August 16 2004, 3:08 am   #

  3. I have implemented your plug-in in my website, altough I translated the strings to Spanish. Dates look more “human” now, thank you very much!

    by multiverso on September 28 2004, 8:29 pm   #

  4. Hi ya. I’m having a slight problem with this plug-in. It doesn’t seem to be picking up the timeoffset figure. I have just made a new post at 7:30am but it is showing “late at night”. I have a +8 hour differential to my host’s timezone. I’m currently running TXP 1.0RC2 changeset 46. Any ideas?

    by Stuart on October 20 2004, 5:51 am   #

  5. I do add the timeoffset when calculating the time. The value/variable may have changed in the latest TXP release. I’ll look into it after work today.

    by ramanan on October 20 2004, 12:35 pm   #

  6. Yes I can see it in the code. Thanks for looking. I’ll check back later.

    by Stuart on October 20 2004, 2:09 pm   #

  7. Hi again :)
    After updating my system to RC3 I also have the same problem as Stuart, but don’t know how to solve it. Any advice?
    Thanks!

    by multiverso on April 16 2005, 11:40 am   #

  8. Multiverso, if you could try changing the name of the variable timeoffset to gmtoffset, I think things should work once more. I don’t have an RC3 install I can test with. Please let me know if this solves your problem.

    by ramanan on April 16 2005, 1:37 pm   #

  9. Yes, I changed the variable and it’s working now. Thanks!

    by multiverso on April 16 2005, 8:38 pm   #

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