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How can I find the date for this week Thursday.

How can I find the date for this week Thursday.
  • I know I have the current date: 29 Mar 2024 - 10:05
  • I know I have day of the week ($dow)
But howto dynamically output the exact date of e.g. this week Thursday


Try using DateManipPlugin %DATETIME{"thursday"}%

-- MichaelDaum - 29 Nov 2018

Great! This perfectly fits my needs.

Two issues however INSTALLATION I installed it, got no error message, but initially, nothing happened. %DATETIME{"thursday"}% resulted in... thursday. Then I checked the errors.log and saw: warning | Foswiki::Plugins::DateManipPlugin | Please disable DateTimePlugin. Temporarily renaming DATETIME macro to DATEMANIP. | So I disabled (and uninstalled) the DateTimePlugin, and then it worked fine...

BROWSER COMPATIBILITY ... however, I noticed on my smartphone (Brave browser) that the dates appear as "[parse] Invalid date string". See my page: http://wiki.boossy.be/bin/view/Boossy/VrtNu#Berekeningen

Today, I checked (on a laptop) the following browsers: - Google Chrome: OK - Opera: OK - Firefox: [parse] Invalid date string (and other errors) - Internet Explorer: [parse] Invalid date string (and other errors) - Ms Edge: [parse] Invalid date string (and other errors) So I suppose it works well with the Blink rendering engine, but not with EdgeHTML, Gecko & Trident - don't know about KHTML/WebKit (Safari).

-- StijnBousard - 30 Nov 2018

Try setting the language to english: %DATETIME{"thursday" language="en"}%. Otherwise it takes the browser's default language and tries to parse the date string that way ... and fails in most cases.

-- MichaelDaum - 01 Dec 2018
 

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Topic revision: r5 - 26 Jul 2019, StijnBousard
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