By TransitionKojo on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Introduced in version: 
8.x-dev
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1183250
Description: 

There is a new theme function for the HTML5 <time> tag that has a 'datetime' attribute:

Added theme function

Added format_date() formats

  • 'html_datetime'
  • 'html_date'
  • 'html_time'
  • 'html_yearless_date'
  • 'html_week'
  • 'html_month'
  • 'html_year'

Usage example

from aggregator-feed-source.tpl.php:

if ($feed->checked) {
  $variables['last_checked'] = theme('datetime', array(
    'datetime' => $feed->checked,
    'text' => t('@time ago', array('@time' => format_interval(REQUEST_TIME - $feed->checked)))
  ));
}
else {
  $variables['last_checked'] = t('never');
}
Impacts: 
Module developers
Themers

Comments

jessebeach’s picture

jessebeach commented

The aggregator source template is being updated to use datetime.

http://drupal.org/node/1189804

I'm in the process of updating other aggregator templates to use this function as well.