Apache time sensitive conditions

March 25, 2013

If you’d like to do time sensitive conditionals on Apache, the following will help you get started. This is useful if you’d like certain content to be displayed based on time.

<!--#config timefmt="%Y%m%d%H%M" -->
<!--#if expr="$DATE_LOCAL < 201303281140" -->
    <!--#include virtual="before.html"-->
<!--#elif expr="$DATE_LOCAL >= 201303281140 && $DATE_LOCAL <= 201303281205"-->
    <!--#include virtual="during.html"-->
<!--#else-->
    <!--#include virtual="after.html"-->
<!--#endif-->

What we do here is set the time format to %Y%m%d%H%M which is year, month, day, hour, minute. For example “201303281140” for March 28th, 2013 at 11:40am.

Then if the current server time is before set time, we display before.html; if the time is during our two times, we display during.html; else we display after.html.