From: Jonathon Anderson <anderbubble@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:38:46 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Provide the current time to edittemplate.
X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/9adee0a222277733dd98bc433ef240e25e438242?ds=sidebyside

Provide the current time to edittemplate.

The `time` variable contains a fixed-format time, guaranteed suitable
for parsing by timedate.

The `formatted_time` variable contains the same time formatted by
IkiWiki::formattime.
---

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
index 571accf1f..c61f6336b 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/edittemplate.pm
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ sub filltemplate ($$) {
 		$template->param(uuid => $uuid);
 	}
 
+	my $time = time();
+	$template->param(time => IkiWiki::formattime($time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"));
+	$template->param(formatted_time => IkiWiki::formattime($time));
+
 	return $template->output;
 }
 
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
index 63df23914..22767de43 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ something like:
 The template page can also contain [[!cpan HTML::Template]] directives,
 like other ikiwiki [[templates]].
 
-Two variables might be set:
+Four variables might be set:
 
 * `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being
   created.
@@ -37,4 +37,10 @@ Two variables might be set:
 * `<TMPL_VAR uuid>` is replaced with a version 4 (random) UUID.
   (Requires the `UUID::Tiny` Perl module if not running on Linux.)
 
+* `<TMPL_VAR time>` is replaced with the current (template generation)
+  time, using a fixed format, `%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S`.
+
+* `<TMPL_VAR formatted_time` is replaced with the current (template
+  generation) time, formatted by IkiWiki.
+
 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]