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Wanted: Date/Time Macro
Posted: 2007-07-17 19:52:33
by midwinter
Hi all.
I'm wondering if someone would take pity on me and create a date/time macro for me. Specifically, I'd like a macro that would produce this with a single click:
Wednesday, June 17, 2007
9:51 PM
I know that there is a date/time macro built in, but I can't make heads or tails of Perl.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Posted: 2007-07-18 00:07:13
by martin
Pity taken:
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$fullDate = ''
$shortTime = ''
Begin Perl
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my $time = time;
my @timestamp = localtime($time);
my ($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $month, $year, $weekday) = localtime($time);
$year += 1900;
$monthName = strftime( '%B', @timestamp );
$weekdayName = strftime( '%A', @timestamp );
if( $hour > 12 ) {
$hour -= 12;
}
elsif( 0 == $hour ) {
$hour = 12; # for 12AM
}
$ampm = strftime( '%p', @timestamp );
$fullDate = sprintf( '%s, %s %d, %04d', $weekdayName, $monthName, $day, $year );
$shortTime = sprintf( '%d:%02d %s', $hour, $min, $ampm );
End
Type Text $fullDate
Type Newline
Type Text $shortTime
Posted: 2007-07-18 01:03:57
by martin
I've added this macro (and a couple more date/time formats) to the
macro repository.
Posted: 2007-07-18 07:04:32
by midwinter
Thanks, Martin! Works like a charm! Exclamation point!
Posted: 2007-07-18 07:10:11
by scottwhitlock
Good to see you back, midwinter. I've missed the banana.
Posted: 2007-07-18 07:26:31
by midwinter
scottwhitlock wrote:Good to see you back, midwinter. I've missed the banana.
Thanks, Scott. It was a crazy semester followed by a broken foot followed by a research trip to Europe.
But I'm back and writing again, so my plan is to bury Martin in feature requests for the upcoming Nisus Writer Super-Pro.
Posted: 2007-07-31 22:44:54
by martin
midwinter found a bug in the macros I wrote. Basically all times in the 24th hour are printed as "00:MM AM" instead of "12:MM AM", eg: "00:55 AM" instead of "12:55 AM".
I've updated the macro files to fix this, so if you ever plan on writing in the midnight hour, it might be worth re-downloading them. Sorry everyone.
Thanks
Posted: 2007-08-01 18:24:33
by gemboy27
I haven't had a need for any of the macros, but I would just like to thank you for creating a page that has them on them
merci
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