On 8/27/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
I have written a new parser function for time and date formatting, called #time. It is an interface to Language::sprintfDate, a function which I wrote a few weeks ago to support internationalisation. Documentation is at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23time
It allows things like {{#time:F|+2 hours}} to get the month name in CEST.
Excellent! This will make a ton of ridiculously complicated templates obsolete. Could you add the rest of the letter codes? I'm sure people would find U useful if they needed to do date arithmetic, for instance. It shouldn't reduce performance, since the case statements would be at the end and therefore just ignored unless they match, right?