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Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:03:43 -0500
From:  "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08010] Re: BQ & SSI
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <001101c712fe$66690420$6600a8c0@YOUR4105E587B6>
In-Reply-To:  <C18FD237.F536%webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
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Abdul-Rashid, I wanted to thank you for the time you took to investigate and
respond to this.  The rest of the list must be tryptophanned out from the
U.S. holiday (nice excuse).  As I have come to expect, getting a response
from this list is more difficult than Saddam Hussein getting a pardon
(normal excuse).  Like finding a lawyer, if I had of thrown money around, I
probably would be covered up with options.  You had the common decency to
try, no matter how simple the question was.

 

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From: Abdul-Rashid Abdullah [mailto:webmaster (at mark) muntada.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:23 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:07996] Re: BQ & SSI

 

I have done some experimentation and found that it is not necessarily what
you might be thinking.  Take a look at what this code outputs for you
(http://www.muntada.com/test.shtml):

<!--#config timefmt="%A, %B %d, %Y" --> <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
<p>
<!--#flastmod virtual="test.shtml" -->
<p>Using &lt!--#exec cmd="/bin/date +%A, %B %d, %y" --&gt
<br>
<!--#exec cmd="/bin/date '+%A, %B %d, %Y'" -->
<pre>
<!--#printenv -->
</pre>


You will see that the flastmod actually will take the timefmt but the
var="DATE_LOCAL" will not.  So this is not a time formatting issue but an
issue of the variable DATE_LOCAL.  If you run the exec cmd of /bin/date you
can format according to your desire.  You will see that when you do a
printenv that the formatting even for the last mod doesn't seem to take.

I searched google and found this relative comment regarding DATE_LOCAL:

> Those assume that your web server is setting DATE_LOCAL in it's 
> environment, and that it's paying attention to what you set timefmt to be.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/099758.h
tml

That being the case, it seems that the issue is how the Apache is setting
the DATE_LOCAL variable.  I am not sure yet on how to influence this, but it
seems that this is a common enough of an issue that someone mentioned it in
the freebsd mailing list.

Hopefully that helps even though it doesn't directly solve the DATE_LOCAL
issue, but still gives you what I think is an acceptable work around. 

-Rashid


On 11/26/06 10:18 PM, "Darrell D. Mobley" <dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net> wrote:

An off-list email suggested that there were better ways to accomplish this
than using SSI.  However, this is for an existing customer who is confused
as to why the BQ implementation of Apache's SSI is any different from any
other Apache set up.  I tried it and I couldn't get it to format either.  So
the question is: why is the BQ implantation of Apache and SSI different than
any other Apache server?
 

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From: Darrell D. Mobley [mailto:dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net]
<mailto:dmobley (at mark) uhostme.net%5d>  
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:09 PM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:07979] BQ & SSI

I am trying to put a server side include in a page for the current date.
When I use the following:
 
[!--#config timefmt="%A %B %d, %Y" --]
[!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" --]
 
( < and > changed for display reasons)
 
I can not change the date format from the standard format.  What do I need
to do to configure the time format to display "Weekday Month day, Year"?
 

 


	

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