LocalTimePlugin

LocalTimePlugin is kind-of rewrite of LocalCityTimePlugin. Nathan was unsatisfied with LocalCityTimePlugin (it used to connect to an external site to get the local time for a given city), so Nathan wrote this Plugin to use the system's localtime functions. It works rather well, but doesn't do too much checking right now for a valid code. It won't die horribly if you give it a bad code, it just will give you a random time.

I use it for our systems diary here. Works quite well.

Sven has brought it up to date with TWiki-4, and is slowly adding functionality to it.

Syntax Rules

Add a %LOCALTIME% tag to your text to show the current time. You can specify the location or timezone such as "Asia/Tokyo" or "GMT" with %LOCALTIME{location}%, where location is a location mentioned at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate, or a timezone code such as "JST".

• see http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm for more information

• The unnamed, or DEFAULT parameter is the timezone to output
• dateGMT must be a datetime string that TWiki can parse (see Time::TWiki::parseTime), but assumes GMT
  • 31 Dec 2001 - 23:59
  • 2001/12/31 23:59:59
  • 2001.12.31.23.59.59
  • 2001/12/31 23:59
  • 2001.12.31.23.59
  • 2001-12-31T23:59:59Z
  • 2001-12-31T23:59:59+01:00
  • 2001-12-31T23:59Z
  • 2001-12-31T23:59+01:00
• format is the same as for the format specifier in http://t42p/cgi-bin/DEVELOP/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiVariables#VarGMTIME
• fromtopic="web.topic" - the plugin tries to use the timezone set in the variable TIMEZONE on the topic selected

Examples

This plugin can be used in combination with the CalendarPlugin, to get a localtime version of your appointments.

Your TWikiAdmin? may need to add this plugin to the pluginsOrder to make sure it evaluates before CalendarPlugin.

to add a TWikiIrcMeeting? add a line like

   * %<nop>LOCALTIME{"Australia/Sydney" dateGMT="6 Mar 2006 - 15:39" format="$day $month"}% - TWikiIrcMeeting=

you can even define a USER Variable on your UserTopic? , that sets a TimeZone? variable, and replace the hardcoded Timezone with that variable.

LocalTimePlugin Global Settings

• One line description:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = A plugin to give the current date and time of a particular city/timezone.

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

• Defaults:
  • Set TIMEZONE = Asia/Tokyo

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Install the Date::Handler package from CPAN:
  • perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Handler'
• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip LocalTimePlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

• (Dakar) Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.
• Test if the installation was successful:
  • %LOCALTIME%

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/NathanOllerenshaw - 02 Jul 2003 -- TWiki:Main/SvenDowideit - 23 July 2006