Opened 18 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#1609 assigned enhancement

Add Time/Date Substitution variables to Mapefile

Reported by: woodbri@… Owned by: sdlime
Priority: high Milestone: FUTURE
Component: MapServer C Library Version: unspecified
Severity: minor Keywords:
Cc: woodbri@…

Description (last modified by sdlime)

I have to update a bazillion mapfiles to change the Copyright year and I thought
it would be a nice feature to have current year as a variable within the map
files so one could do something like:

TEXT "Copyright {YEAR}, ..." 

This also might open some interesting possibilities for others to do things like
having time dependent layer classifications, etc. Not unlike have time/date
function in postgres for queries, classification, adding to text strings, etc.

{YEAR}
{MONTH}
{DAY}

or

{TIME:formatsting}

where formatstring would allow you to specify how to display the time value.
I am kind of partial to the postgres date/time formating strings. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-formatting.html#FUNCTIONS-FORMATTING-DATETIME-TABLE
but hey I'll take the functionality any way I can as long as I can get YYYY year
format to add to my Copyright strings :)

Thanks.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by sdlime, 15 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Milestone: 6.0 release
Status: newassigned

comment:2 by sdlime, 13 years ago

Milestone: 6.0 releaseFUTURE
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