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This template is not actually used, the ''#when'' parser-function is used to add time information to articles. Just add a single parameter which can be arbitrarily formatted time information, for example:
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This template will be used to add time information to an article. It will probably be implemented as a parser function rather than a template so that we can convert any arbitrary date format easily, for example <tt>{</tt><tt>{#when:d=*|h=6|m=30}}</tt> or <tt>{</tt><tt>{#when|27 Jan}}</tt>. This template should allow friendly input with useful defaults for unspecified parameters, the whole thing expanding to a collection of category statements which DPL can query, such as ''Monday'', '':30'', ''06:00'', ''2007'' etc. DPL can query categories more efficiently and offer more flexible ways of selection such as regular expressions. For complex time information, any number of time statements could be added to a page.
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:<tt><nowiki>{{#when:2009/4/24}}</nowiki></tt> ''- best to do dates backwards like this otherwise it tries to use some weird American format''
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:<tt><nowiki>{{#when:24 apr 2009}}</nowiki></tt>
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Also the ability to specify a duration with each time statement should be included too, maybe ''t'' for time. The default value would be zero which is a point in time with no duration.
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:<tt><nowiki>{{#when:24 apr, 4:30pm}}</nowiki></tt> ''- current year is used here since not specified''
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The function expands to a set of category links to categorise the article into year, month, day-of-month, full-weekday-name and time (24 hour HH:MM:SS format). Articles exhibiting time can then be matched with a DPL query, for example:
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;New time categories
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:<tt><nowiki>{{#dpl:category=2006|category=April}}</nowiki></tt>
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*[[:Category:Years]]
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The parser function which adds this is very simple consisting of the following [[when.php]] code in the ''LocalSettings.php'' file.
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*[[:Category:Months]]
 
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*[[:Category:Weeks]]
 
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*[[:Category:Days]]
 
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*[[:Category:Hours]]
 
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*[[:Category:Minutes]]
 
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*[[:Category:Seconds]]
 
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;Other time-related articles
 
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*[[News]] {{!}} [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]
 
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*[[:Category:Milestones|Milestones]] {{!}} [[:Category:Completed Milestones|Completed Milestones]] {{!}} [[Road Map]]
 
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*[[Calendar]] {{!}} [[:Category:Date|Date articles]]
 
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*[[2002]] {{!}} [[2003]] {{!}} [[2004]] {{!}} [[2005]] {{!}} [[2006]] {{!}} [[2007]]
 
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Latest revision as of 21:24, 22 May 2008

This template is not actually used, the #when parser-function is used to add time information to articles. Just add a single parameter which can be arbitrarily formatted time information, for example:

{{#when:2009/4/24}} - best to do dates backwards like this otherwise it tries to use some weird American format
{{#when:24 apr 2009}}
{{#when:24 apr, 4:30pm}} - current year is used here since not specified

The function expands to a set of category links to categorise the article into year, month, day-of-month, full-weekday-name and time (24 hour HH:MM:SS format). Articles exhibiting time can then be matched with a DPL query, for example:

{{#dpl:category=2006|category=April}}

The parser function which adds this is very simple consisting of the following when.php code in the LocalSettings.php file.

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