[pmwiki-users] Re: Conditional Directive based on time - standards

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-10-13  07:31 PM +0200, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>I haven't really followed this thread, but how about
>
>         (:if 20051014 < date < 20051020:)
>         (:if 20051014 <= date <= 20051020:)

In a word ... Yuk!  ;-)

I find  (:if date 20051015..20051019:) much better than (:if 20051014 
< date < 20051020:).

It instantly shows the full range of valid dates without requiring 
mental arithmetic. This may not seem too onerous until you consider:

(:if date 20051101..20051130:)

can be rendered in your scheme as:

(:if 20051031 < date < 20051201:)

With truncated dates (which I don't think are needed yet) this could 
become (:if date 200511:)


Neil

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