Date queries (feature suggestion)

Max Harmony <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2020 10:57:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.css.general
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I'd like to suggest date/time queries as a feature. Example syntax would =
be something like:

@date (hour<12){ /*morning style*/ }
@date (month=3D=3D12 & day=3D=3D25){ /*Christmas style*/ }

It's possible to do something similar with server-side languages, of =
course, but that approach has several problems: it causes issues with =
cacheing, it uses the server's timezone instead of the viewer's, it =
increases load on the server, and it is only available if there *is* a =
server.

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