>>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/ready/edittemplate
browse=http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ready/edittemplate
author="Jonathon Anderson, [[smcv]]"]]
->>> Here is a version of that branch that I would merge if I could.
+>>> Here is a version of that branch that I [[would merge|users/smcv/ready]] if I could.
>>> Changes since Jonathon's version:
>>>
>>> * only generate a UUID if needed
>>> timestamp variables/objects, so I left the naming as it was.
>>>
>>> --[[smcv]]
+
+>>>> the ready/edittemplate branch looks good to me too. `formatted_time` and
+>>>> `html_time` probably don't hurt, but personally i'd not add either and
+>>>> instead expose displaytime as a directive, for otherwise migrating to
+>>>> html5 would leave old evaluations of displaytime around in the repository.
+>>>> (example template: `\[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]]I wrote this post at
+>>>> \[[!displaytime "<TMPL_VAR time>"]]`). --[[chrysn]]