--- /dev/null
+[[tag patch]]
+
+Here's a patch to the calendar plugin. If you specify an event preprocessor in a post, such as:
+
+ [[event time="2008-06-24"]]
+
+That date will be used instead of the post creation time when displaying the calendar.
+
+ --- calendar.pm.orig 2008-06-24 22:36:09.000000000 -0400
+ +++ calendar.pm 2008-06-24 22:51:11.000000000 -0400
+ @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
+ use IkiWiki 2.00;
+ use Time::Local;
+ use POSIX;
+ +use Date::Parse;
+
+ my %cache;
+ my %linkcache;
+ @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
+ sub import { #{{{
+ hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "version", call => \&needsbuild);
+ hook(type => "preprocess", id => "calendar", call => \&preprocess);
+ + hook(type => "preprocess", id => "event", call => \&preprocess_event);
+ } #}}}
+
+ sub is_leap_year (@) { #{{{
+ @@ -304,6 +306,19 @@
+ return $calendar;
+ } #}}}
+
+ +sub preprocess_event (@) { #{{{
+ + my %params=@_;
+ + # if now time is given, use now
+ + $params{time} = localtime unless defined $params{time};
+ +
+ + my $timestamp = str2time($params{time});
+ + if ( defined $timestamp) {
+ + $pagestate{$params{page}}{event}{mtime}=$timestamp;
+ + }
+ + # remove the event block entirely
+ + return "";
+ +} #}}
+ +
+ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
+ my %params=@_;
+ $params{pages} = "*" unless defined $params{pages};
+ @@ -355,7 +370,13 @@
+ if (! defined $cache{$pagespec}) {
+ foreach my $p (keys %pagesources) {
+ next unless pagespec_match($p, $pagespec);
+ - my $mtime = $IkiWiki::pagectime{$p};
+ + my $mtime;
+ + # use time defined by event preprocessor if it's available
+ + if (defined $pagestate{$p}{event}{mtime}) {
+ + $mtime = $pagestate{$p}{event}{mtime};
+ + } else {
+ + $mtime = $IkiWiki::pagectime{$p};
+ + }
+ my $src = $pagesources{$p};
+ my @date = localtime($mtime);
+ my $mday = $date[3];