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Third plugin: calendar

This builds a calendar display of the current month. Days with articles are links to that day’s archive page; days without articles aren’t links.

1. download it, and rename it “calendar”
2. Stick it in your blosxoms plugin directory
3. Look at the configuration variables; there’s probably not anything you’ll want to fiddle with, though.
4. Add “$calendar::calendar” to your head.$flavour or tail.$flavour file
5. Maybe add some things to your stylesheet

This uses Time::Local which I think has only been standard since perl 5.6.1. If you don’t have it, first let me know so I can judge how big an issue this is; then either install it, or edit the plugin: remove the use Time::Local; line, then find

# XXX this isn't quite right in the face of daylight savings time
#   $monthstart = $now - ($now[3]-1)*86400;
$monthstart = timelocal(0,0,0,1,$month-1,$year-1900);

around line 100; uncomment the 2nd line and and comment the third.

Things that I’m considering for this

• add a year/month calendar for the current year
• add a list of years with articles
• add next/previous arrows to the month — also to the day? the UI for that isn’t clear
• when displaying old articles, display the calendar for that month, not the current one. I’m not sure that info is currently available to the plugins
• more output formats?
• anything else wanted/needed?

The stylesheet bits I’m using:

.calendar {}
.calendar_month_head {
font-size:		9pt;
font-weight:		normal;
}
.calendar_day_head {
font-size:		7pt;
font-weight:		normal;
}
.calendar_day_noday {}
.calendar_day_link {
text-align:		right;
}
.calendar_day_nolink {
text-align:		right;
}