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authorJonathon Anderson <anderbubble@gmail.com>2013-01-27 10:38:46 +0300
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2014-09-01 08:54:37 +0100
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Provide the current time to edittemplate.
The `time` variable contains a fixed-format time, guaranteed suitable for parsing by timedate. The `formatted_time` variable contains the same time formatted by IkiWiki::formattime.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
index 63df23914..22767de43 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ something like:
The template page can also contain [[!cpan HTML::Template]] directives,
like other ikiwiki [[templates]].
-Two variables might be set:
+Four variables might be set:
* `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being
created.
@@ -37,4 +37,10 @@ Two variables might be set:
* `<TMPL_VAR uuid>` is replaced with a version 4 (random) UUID.
(Requires the `UUID::Tiny` Perl module if not running on Linux.)
+* `<TMPL_VAR time>` is replaced with the current (template generation)
+ time, using a fixed format, `%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S`.
+
+* `<TMPL_VAR formatted_time` is replaced with the current (template
+ generation) time, formatted by IkiWiki.
+
[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]