webgen users - Oct 2008 - Time format in webgen

When you declare a time in XML Format as metainfo key:

     custom_time: 2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00

or

     modified_at: 2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00

and use it somewhere else like this

     <%= "#{node[''custom_time'']}" %>
     <%= "#{node[''modified_at'']}" %>

then the output of both statements is

     Mon Oct 13 11:10:45 +0200 2008

Is it possible to change the time format to something else? At least to 
keep it as-is, i.e. "2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00"?

Michael

Am Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:20:50 +0200
schrieb Michael Franzl <franzl at corporatematters.at>:
> When you declare a time in XML Format as metainfo key:
> 
>      custom_time: 2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00
> 
> or
> 
>      modified_at: 2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00
> 
> and use it somewhere else like this
> 
>      <%= "#{node[''custom_time'']}" %>
>      <%= "#{node[''modified_at'']}" %>
> 
> then the output of both statements is
> 
>      Mon Oct 13 11:10:45 +0200 2008
> 
> Is it possible to change the time format to something else? At least
> to keep it as-is, i.e. "2008-10-13T10:10:45+01:00"?
Just use Ruby''s Time#strftime method to format the time, for example:

    <%=
node[''custom_time''].strftime(''%Y%m%d'')

Note that this only works if the time in the meta information is a
formatted as a valid YAML time (see
http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/reference_metainfo.html#modified_at),
Otherwise you would just get a string and not a Time object! Also note
that if you leave out the hour and time, you just get a Date object!

-- Thomas