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Date/Time plugin for ExpressionEngine

The DT Plugin displays dates with formatting and allows you to add days, months, years to the current date or a static date you set.

Installation

New: composer installer

composer require jjpmann/ee-dt

Read more about this here

Old: manual

move files into 'dt' folder inside of system/user/addons

Usage

{exp:dt}

Will return the date formatted this way: MM/DD/YYYY

{exp:dt:wrap}

Tag pair used to wrap around entries loop to adding custom dates in to parameters

Parameters

All of these are optional

set

Sets the static date that the other parameters will reference. If not set will default to the current date.

{exp:dt set="01/01/2010"}

format

Sets the format of the returned date using the following parameters: http://expressionengine.com/user_guide/templates/date_variable_formatting.html

{exp:dt set="11/03/90" ee_format="true" format="%l %M %j, %Y"}

Outputs: Saturday Nov 3, 1990

ee_format

if set to 'false'dt will parse the date using php formating: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

{exp:dt set="11/03/90" format="%A %B %e, %Y"}

Outputs: Saturday November 3, 1990

language

Translates based on system languages

• fr_FR : French

• es_ES : Spanish

• nl_NL : Dutch

  {exp:dt set="11/03/90" language="es_ES" format="%A %b %e, %Y"}

Outputs: sábado noviembre 3, 1990

day

Adds or subtracts a value in days to current/set date.

month

Adds or subtracts a value in months to current/set date.

year

Adds or subtracts a value in years to current/set date.

{exp:dt day="3" month="1" year="-1" set="1/1/2010"}

Outputs: 02/04/09

hour

Adds or subtracts a value in hours to current/set date.

minute

Adds or subtracts a value in minutes to current/set date.

second

Adds or subtracts a value in seconds to current/set date.

Examples

Third Saturday of each month

Now: {current_time format="%m/%d/%y"} <br>

{exp:dt set='third saturday of this month'} == {current_time format="%m/%d/%y"}<br>

{if '{exp:dt set="first monday of this month"}' == '{current_time format="%m/%d/%y"}'}

YAY

{/if}