From 3e60f49e6605e4da7976ca61ba07200ae59c4a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle M Hall <kyle@bywatersolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:36:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 21824: Add KohaDates method 'output_preference' to make
 it easy to store formatted dates in TT variable

---
 Koha/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.pm          | 5 +++++
 t/db_dependent/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.t | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Koha/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.pm b/Koha/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.pm
index 13ebec8926..e87d478adc 100644
--- a/Koha/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.pm
+++ b/Koha/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.pm
@@ -37,4 +37,9 @@ sub filter {
         output_pref({ dt => $dt, dateonly => !$config->{with_hours}, dateformat => $config->{dateformat} });
 }
 
+sub output_preference {
+    my ( $self, @params ) = @_;
+    return output_pref( @params );
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/t/db_dependent/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.t b/t/db_dependent/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.t
index 36857a65dd..53449d8795 100644
--- a/t/db_dependent/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.t
+++ b/t/db_dependent/Template/Plugin/KohaDates.t
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use Modern::Perl;
+
 use C4::Context;
 use Koha::DateUtils;
-use Test::More tests => 8;
+
 use Test::MockModule;
+use Test::More tests => 9;
 use t::lib::Mocks;
 
 BEGIN {
@@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ is( $filtered_date, '01/04/1979', 'us: dt_from_string should return the valid da
 $filtered_date = $filter->filter('1979-04-01', undef, { dateformat => 'iso' } );
 is( $filtered_date, '1979-04-01', 'date should be returned in ISO if dateformat is passed with a value of iso' );
 
+is( Koha::DateUtils::output_pref( dt_from_string ), $filter->output_preference( dt_from_string ), 'Filter output_preference method output matches output_pref' );
+
 $module_context->mock(
     'tz',
     sub {
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)