Date tag oddness

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
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I cannot for the life of me figure out what drives the decision of
WHICH year this tag means:

<r:date format="%Y" />

I have tried updating the content in the footer snippet, the Home page,
etc. New pages get the correct year, but old pages get whatever year
they were created in, it seems.

Is there a tag I can use that means This Year, as in what year the
server thinks it is at the moment?

Thanks,

Walter

2

Walter,

The <r:date /> tag uses the published date of the current page. There
is not currently a tag that gives the current date, although its
implementation would be trivial.

Sean

3

Walter Lee D. wrote:

I cannot for the life of me figure out what drives the decision of
WHICH year this tag means:

<r:date format="%Y" />

It’s the published_at date.

–
John

4

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:34 PM, John W. Long wrote:

Walter Lee D. wrote:

I cannot for the life of me figure out what drives the decision of
WHICH year this tag means:

<r:date format="%Y" />

It’s the published_at date.

So how can I bump this date? Do I unpublish and then re-publish a page?
And if so, which one? I would like to bump the date for the entire site
(in the footer).

Thanks,

Walter

5

Walter Lee D. wrote:

So how can I bump this date? Do I unpublish and then re-publish a page?
And if so, which one? I would like to bump the date for the entire site
(in the footer).

You would have to do that manually. Set the published_at date to nil and
the status to draft. Then change it to published again.

Something like this in script/console might work:

page = Page.find_by_url(‘/path/to/my/page’)
page.status = Status[:draft]
page.published_at = nil
page.save!
page.status = Status[:published]
page.save!

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

6

Thanks.

On Mar 21, 2007, at 3:22 PM, John W. Long wrote:

Something like this in script/console might work:

page = Page.find_by_url(’/path/to/my/page’)
page.status = Status[:draft]
page.published_at = nil
page.save!
page.status = Status[:published]
page.save!

I would like to second the motion for a tag that means Current Date. I
very often put the following in the footer of pages I make in PHP:

Copyright ©2004—<?=date('Y',time())?> Walter D. Studio…

That’s basically all I am after here in the footer. I had a really
confusing journey through the Ruby documentation, trying to find the
equivalent so I could try just writing this myself. But my lack of
patience and experience conspired against me figuring this out.

Thanks again,

Walter