Tinderbox automatically keeps track of two dates: Created (the date and time when a note was first made), and Modified (the date and time when the note was most recently changed). You can create your own date attributes, too; for example, Published might be the date when a note was first added to the public version of your Web site.

Agents can use dates to good effect. A container for weblog items, for example, might automatically timestamp a note whenever it's added, whether freshly-created or moved from another place. Or an agent could collect all news items whose ReleaseDate has already arrived, but not items whose ReleaseDate is still in the future.

Many weblog writers want to display dates associated with their notes; Tinderbox offers great flexibility in date formatting. To include any date, simply add the placeholder ^Get() to your template:

^Get(modified)^

To format dates, add a second argument to ^Get:

^Get(modified,"format-string" )^

where "format-string" describes the way you want the date to appear.

Format strings let you present dates and times in exactly the way you wish. They can appear in your language or in English, in whatever style you prefer.

format codes

format string	result
L	Monday, March 25, 2002 (local time, in long format, using the system format settings
l	3-25-2002 (local time, in short format, using the system format settings
d	25 (day of month)
m	3 (number of month)
M	Mar (abbreviation of month)
MM	March (name of month)
w	Mon (abbreviation of weekday)
W	Monday (weekday)
y	2002 (year)
t	2:32 pm (time, in local format)
*	RFC-822 internet formatted time
\	includes the following character literally, even if it has a special meaning
any other character	include the character

Home \| News \| Download
	Eastgate Systems Inc., 134 Main Street Watertown MA 02472 USA (617) 924-9044	info@eastgate.com
© Copyright 2002 by Eastgate Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.