[Asterisk-Dev] Patch for voicemail date/time

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 16 May 2003 12:50 am, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2003 10:49, Jim Gottlieb wrote:
> > On 2003-05-15 at 02:53, Brian Capouch (brianc at palaver.net)
>
> wrote:
> > > If that could be done, then the timestamp should prolly be
> > > played backwards, time-of-day first.  If I'm getting
> > > messages very often, that's all I'd need to know of any use;
> > > then beep right along.
> >
> > What's usually done in voicemail systems is to just say
> > "Today" or "Yesterday" as appropriate.  Only if the message is
> > older is, perhaps, the day of the week given, or the full
> > date.
>
> Here's the latest bit of code.  This patch is currently UNTESTED,
> but I'll test it tomorrow during the day.  It will allow a new
> variable in voicemail.conf called "datetime" which is a format
> string.  The string currently accepts the following specifiers:
> 	'any/soundfile'	quoted, in single ticks, the name of a sound
> 	A			weekday
> 	B			monthname
> 	d			day of month
> 	Y			year
> 	I (capital i)		hour, in 12-hour format
> 	M			minute
> 	p			am or pm
> 	Q			"digits/today", "digits/yesterday", or
> 				"ABdY" if neither.
> Spaces and tabs are ignored within the string.  The default
> string is:
> 	'vm-received' Q 'digits/at' IMp
>
> The format specifiers, with the exception of Q, are in keeping
> with strftime(3), in case you're interested.

Okay, this patch has been tested (original voicemail).  I'll attempt
to get the patch ported over to voicemail2 this weekend.

-Tilghman
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