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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::prettydate;
+use IkiWiki;
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+# Blanks duplicate the time before.
+my $default_timetable=[
+ "late at night on", # 12
+ "", # 1
+ "in the wee hours of", # 2
+ "", # 3
+ "", # 4
+ "terribly early in the morning of", # 5
+ "", # 6
+ "in early morning on", # 7
+ "", # 8
+ "", # 9
+ "in mid-morning of", # 10
+ "in late morning of", # 11
+ "at lunch time on", # 12
+ "", # 1
+ "in the afternoon of", # 2
+ "", # 3
+ "", # 4
+ "in late afternoon of", # 5
+ "in the evening of", # 6
+ "", # 7
+ "in late evening on", # 8
+ "", # 9
+ "at night on", # 10
+ "", # 11
+];
+
+sub import { #{{{
+ hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "skeleton", call => \&checkconfig);
+} # }}}
+
+sub checkconfig () { #{{{
+ if (! defined $config{prettydateformat} ||
+ $config{prettydateformat} eq '%c') {
+ $config{prettydateformat}='%X %B %o, %Y';
+ }
+
+ if (! ref $config{timetable}) {
+ $config{timetable}=$default_timetable;
+ }
+
+ # Fill in the blanks.
+ for (my $h=0; $h < 24; $h++) {
+ if (! length $config{timetable}[$h]) {
+ $config{timetable}[$h] = $config{timetable}[$h - 1];
+ }
+ }
+} #}}}
+
+sub IkiWiki::displaytime ($) { #{{{
+ my $time=shift;
+
+ my @t=localtime($time);
+ my ($h, $m)=@t[2, 1];
+ if ($h == 16 && $m < 30) {
+ $time = "at teatime on";
+ }
+ elsif (($h == 0 && $m < 30) || ($h == 23 && $m > 50)) {
+ # well, at 40 minutes it's more like the martian timeslip..
+ $time = "at midnight on";
+ }
+ elsif (($h == 12 && $m < 15) || ($h == 11 && $m > 50)) {
+ $time = "at noon on";
+ }
+ # TODO: sunrise and sunset, but to be right I need to do it based on
+ # lat and long, and calculate the appropriate one for the actual
+ # time of year using Astro::Sunrise. Not tonight, it's wee hours
+ # already..
+ else {
+ $time = $config{timetable}[$h];
+ if (! length $time) {
+ $time = "sometime";
+ }
+ }
+
+ eval q{use Date::Format};
+ error($@) if $@;
+ my $format=$config{prettydateformat};
+ $format=~s/\%X/$time/g;
+ return strftime($format, \@t);
+} #}}}
+
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+[[template id=plugin name=prettydate author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[tag type/format]]
+
+Enabling this plugin changes the dates displayed on pages in the wiki to
+a format that is nice and easy to read.
+
+The names given to each of the hours in the day can be customised by
+setting the `timetable` configuration variable in ikiwiki's setup file.
+The default value of this configuration value can be seen near the top of
+`prettydate.pm`. Note that hours can be left blank, to make it display the
+same as the hour before. Midnight, noon, and teatime are all hardcoded,
+since they do not occupy the whole hour.
+
+The format used for the date can be customised using the `prettydateformat`
+configuration variable in the setup file. `%X` will be expanded to the
+prettified time value. The default prettydateformat is `"%X %B %o, %Y"`.
+
+This plugin uses the [[cpan TimeDate]] perl module.