weblog.lol: {relative-date} function

[bixfrankonis]

There's a $relative_date you can use in things like the {recent-posts} format, but I'd love a {relative-date} for use in a Post Template.

Here is the use case.

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At some later date it might be interesting to make a {date-disclaimer} function with a Date disclaimer format: and a Date disclaimer cutoff: so that the feature would be entirely configured in configuration and then ignored in a Post Template if the post is newer than the cutoff date.

[newbold]

Just added {relative-date} to the parser, so it should now be good to go. Love the idea of the disclaimer — will be able to focus on that once I have some basic logic stuff up and running (which as you know has been on the to do list for a while now).

[bixfrankonis]

It occurs to me now that with me asking elsewhere for $date in Tags format:, $relative_date there also would actually be an alternate solve to my use case, because I could just include a disclaimer as part of how I'm currently using the tags area.

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Didn’t even see this, but added $relative_date there as well just a moment ago — figured it probably belongs wherever you can use {date} or $date!