[dokuwiki] A small idea

Hello all!

First of all I want to thank all the developers for this great product! Thank 
you! Also, happy easter to those of you who celebrate it now (as opposed to 
next month)!

One question: I saw that the date formatting method was changed from "date" to 
"strftime" (around mid-February) and the stated reason was something related to 
localized month/day names (sorry for not having the exact quote handy). However 
this breaks many plugins in ugly ways, and while the fix is not that hard 
(basically searching the plugin source code for "date" and replacing it with 
"strftime"), may I suggest an alternative approach:

  - create a different configuration variable for the "strftime" formatting 
string
  - provide migration to/from the two settings (ie if only one is set, the 
other should be created programatically). this shouldn't be all that difficult, 
since all that needs to be done is mapping a set of identifiers to a different 
set of identifiers (for example Y <-> %Y)

The drawback of this is that you can have non-localized day/month names appear 
on your wiki until the given plugin provides an updated version. However this 
is still the lesser evil of the two alternatives (the other being that the site 
gets littered by "%" where "date" is used format the time)

If there is interest in such a patch I would be happy to provide it (in unified 
diff format probably, since I haven't used darcs yet for anything other than 
pulling the devel version of DokuWiki)

PS. I think that the fact that there will be (hopefully) a release real soon is 
great! Between this and the planned Ubuntu release, April should be a great 
month :-).





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