Time Block: Optional link and format.

[StevenDufresne]

In building WordPress/wordcamp.org#1124, we need a front-end time block to display a more user-friendly block. There are 2 things that don't work with the current time block:

• It links to the WorldClock
• It doesn't allow you to update formatting.

This PR makes the WordClock link optional based on the presence of the data-iso property and allows you to pass in the data format in via data-date-format.

[adamwoodnz]

So how are we intending to use this, just by adding html to be picked up by view.js, as if it was produced by the editor, eg. <time class="wporg-time" datetime="..." data-iso="..." data-date-format="...">{ utcDateDescription }</time>?

This markup is generated on change in the editor, as it's a rich text format, not a standard block.

[StevenDufresne]

So how are we intending to use this, just by adding html to be picked up by view.js, as if it was produced by the editor, eg. <time class="wporg-time" datetime="..." data-iso="..." data-date-format="...">{ utcDateDescription }</time>?

This markup is generated on change in the editor, as it's a rich text format, not a standard block.

Yes.

[adamwoodnz]

Is there a PR with it being used yet?

[adamwoodnz]

Regression tested this in sandbox and looks ok to me.

It would be nice to test with the new usage though.

[StevenDufresne]

Not yet. I can get one up.

[StevenDufresne]

In the end, I don't think this will be usable for the events page since it replaces everything in the time block, removing important layout-related html. We should standardize dates across wp.org but since this is used specifically for in-content dates, we can leave it as is for now. We don't have good enough context for abstraction. I'll close this until a later date.