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I know all that might seem silly, but it's important to drive a firm distinction between in-universe and out-of-universe pages, because the distinction affects the writing style of the two types of page. In-universe pages are '''always''' written in the past tense, from the perspective of a social historian from the far future who's looking back on the events of the DWU as something from the distant past, but is only able to write about events ''as they were actually recorded'' by history. So, firm past tense and no speculation. Out-of-universe pages have a more relaxed, naturalistic, journalistic style that can use a variety of tenses. Check out [[tardis:point of view]] for more on that. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''19:44:22 Mon '''11 Jul 2011 </span> | I know all that might seem silly, but it's important to drive a firm distinction between in-universe and out-of-universe pages, because the distinction affects the writing style of the two types of page. In-universe pages are '''always''' written in the past tense, from the perspective of a social historian from the far future who's looking back on the events of the DWU as something from the distant past, but is only able to write about events ''as they were actually recorded'' by history. So, firm past tense and no speculation. Out-of-universe pages have a more relaxed, naturalistic, journalistic style that can use a variety of tenses. Check out [[tardis:point of view]] for more on that. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''19:44:22 Mon '''11 Jul 2011 </span> | ||
==Formatting time== | |||
Well, there are a few ways to format time stamps. You can find out some other ways of doing it by going to [[w:c:community:Forum:index]] and searching for "signature". Pretty sure that'll pull up a few relevant threads. The way I do it is a bit individualistic, and kinda/sorta doesn't use the approaches of people at the central forum. See, I travel on a lot of different wikis and I like ahving a "modular" approach. If you see my sig at central, you'll note that I have a third, middle part clearly stating my "home" wiki. So I have deliberate "gaps" between the signature proper, an optional middle message, and the time stamp. If you don't want that gap, this method isn't hte way to go. | |||
But here it is for you to play with. | |||
What you do is you create a ''second'' pair of subpages from your user page. I call mine [[user:CzechOut/Time]] and [[User:CzechOut/Time Format]]. And it works just like the Sig/Autosig pair that we talked about last time you asked for help. | |||
The /Time Format one holds the actual code, the /Time one is what you put in your [[Special:Preferences]]. | |||
Now, if you look at my /Time Format, you'll notice that it's a <span> without actually having the <span> and </span> tags around. That's because the span tags are actually in Special:Preferences, not in the template page. | |||
So in Preferences, I'll type something like<pre><span style"{{SUBST:{{User:CzechOut/Time}}">{{SUBST:#time:<whatever i want for time>}} }}</span> Now, because I'm substituting /Time, and the contents of /Time ia <noqiki>{{TimeFormat}}</noqiki>, that means the result of substituting /Time is merely to add <nowiki>{{TimeFormat}}</nowiki> to the page. This means that I can have all the formatting I want and the only thing that will apear on the page is <nowiki>{{TimeFormat}}</nowiki>. Which is handy, cause people get pissed off if you have a huge, multi-line signature. | |||
So, to sum up. Create two subpages from your user page. In file ''a'', place your formatting. In file ''b'', place a template call to file ''a'' ({{user:Wildheart7/File a}}). Then, in your preferences, type<pre><span style="{{SUBST:{{user:Wildheart7/File B}}}}">{{#time:<whatever>}}</span></pre> | |||
Don't forget that [[help:signatures]] tells you more about how actualy format time — that is, it tells you what that <whatever> should be. Hope that helps! {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">05:58: Sat 24 Sep 2011 </span> | |||
