* Add a prettydate plugin that formats dates in a more readable fashion.

  (I had to get a pretty date somehow today..)

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diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/prettydate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/prettydate.pm
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::prettydate;
+use IkiWiki;
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+# Blanks duplicate the time before.
+my $default_timetable=[
+	"late at night on",	# 12
+	"",			# 1
+	"in the wee hours of",	# 2
+	"",			# 3
+	"",			# 4
+	"terribly early in the morning of", # 5
+	"",			# 6
+	"in early morning on",	# 7
+	"",			# 8
+	"",			# 9
+	"in mid-morning of",	# 10
+	"in late morning of",	# 11
+	"at lunch time on",	# 12
+	"",			# 1
+	"in the afternoon of",	# 2
+	"",			# 3
+	"",			# 4
+	"in late afternoon of",	# 5
+	"in the evening of",	# 6
+	"",			# 7
+	"in late evening on",	# 8
+	"",			# 9
+	"at night on",		# 10
+	"",			# 11
+];
+
+sub import { #{{{
+	hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "skeleton", call => \&checkconfig);
+} # }}}
+
+sub checkconfig () { #{{{
+	if (! defined $config{prettydateformat} ||
+	    $config{prettydateformat} eq '%c') {
+	    	$config{prettydateformat}='%X %B %o, %Y';
+	}
+
+	if (! ref $config{timetable}) {
+		$config{timetable}=$default_timetable;
+	}
+
+	# Fill in the blanks.
+	for (my $h=0; $h < 24; $h++) {
+		if (! length $config{timetable}[$h]) {
+			$config{timetable}[$h] = $config{timetable}[$h - 1];
+		}
+	}
+} #}}}
+
+sub IkiWiki::displaytime ($) { #{{{
+	my $time=shift;
+
+	my @t=localtime($time);
+	my ($h, $m)=@t[2, 1];
+	if ($h == 16 && $m < 30) {
+		$time = "at teatime on";
+	}
+	elsif (($h == 0 && $m < 30) || ($h == 23 && $m > 50)) {
+		# well, at 40 minutes it's more like the martian timeslip..
+		$time = "at midnight on";
+	}
+	elsif (($h == 12 && $m < 15) || ($h == 11 && $m > 50)) {
+		$time = "at noon on";
+	}
+	# TODO: sunrise and sunset, but to be right I need to do it based on
+	# lat and long, and calculate the appropriate one for the actual
+	# time of year using Astro::Sunrise. Not tonight, it's wee hours
+	# already..
+	else {
+		$time = $config{timetable}[$h];
+		if (! length $time) {
+			$time = "sometime";
+		}
+	}
+
+	eval q{use Date::Format};
+	error($@) if $@;
+	my $format=$config{prettydateformat};
+	$format=~s/\%X/$time/g;
+	return strftime($format, \@t);
+} #}}}
+
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