diff --git a/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php b/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php
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--- a/www/plugins/modifier.phpdate_format.php
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-<?php
-/**
- * Smarty plugin
- * phpdate_format plugin
- * Sam Easterby-Smith
- * Does exactly what the normal date_format plugin does - only it uses date() rather than strftime()
- * It also supports the various php date constants for doing things like rfc822 dates
- */
-/**
- * Include the {@link shared.make_timestamp.php} plugin
- */
-// Fix by nZEDb
-if (!isset($smarty)) {
-	$smarty = new Smarty();
-}
-switch (true) {
-	case is_string($smarty->plugins_dir) && is_dir($smarty->plugins_dir):
-		$plugins_dir = $smarty->plugins_dir;
-		break;
-	case is_array($smarty->plugins_dir):
-		$plugins_dir = '';
-		foreach ($smarty->plugins_dir as $dir) {
-			if (is_string($dir) && is_dir($dir)) {
-				$plugins_dir = $dir;
-				break;
-			}
-		}
-		break;
-	default:
-		$plugins_dir = '';
-}
-if (!is_dir($plugins_dir)) {
-	exit('Fatal: Unable to find smarty plugins directory.' . PHP_EOL);
-}
-// End fix by nZEDb.
-require_once ($plugins_dir . 'shared.make_timestamp.php');
-/**
- * Smarty phpdate_format modifier plugin
- *
- * Type:     modifier<br>
- * Name:     date_format<br>
- * Purpose:  format datestamps via date()<br>
- * Input:<br>
- *         - string: input date string
- *         - format: strftime format for output
- *         - default_date: default date if $string is empty
- * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.date.format.php
- *          date_format (Smarty online manual)
- * @param string
- * @param string
- * @param string
- * @return string|void
- * @uses smarty_make_timestamp()
- */
-function smarty_modifier_phpdate_format($string, $format="Y/m/d H:i:s", $default_date=null)
-{
-  /*  if (substr(PHP_OS,0,3) == 'WIN') {
-		   $_win_from = array ('%e',  '%T',       '%D');
-		   $_win_to   = array ('%#d', '%H:%M:%S', '%m/%d/%y');
-		   $format = str_replace($_win_from, $_win_to, $format);
-	}*/
-	if (substr($format,0,5)=='DATE_'){
-		switch ($format){
-			case 'DATE_ATOM': $nformat=DATE_ATOM; break;
-			case 'DATE_COOKIE': $nformat=DATE_COOKIE; break;
-			case 'DATE_ISO8601': $nformat=DATE_ISO8601; break;
-			case 'DATE_RFC822': $nformat="D, d M y H:i:s O"; break; //The php constant is not quite right - as the time-zone comes out with invalid values like "UTC"...
-			case 'DATE_RFC850': $nformat=DATE_RFC850; break;
-			case 'DATE_RFC1036': $nformat=DATE_RFC1036; break;
-			case 'DATE_RFC1123': $nformat=DATE_RFC1123; break;
-			case 'DATE_RFC2822': $nformat=DATE_RFC2822; break;
-			case 'DATE_RFC3339': $nformat=DATE_RFC3339; break;
-			case 'DATE_RSS': $nformat="D, d M Y H:i:s O"; break; //as rfc822 ...
-			case 'DATE_W3C': $nformat=DATE_W3C; break;
-		}
-	} else {
-		$nformat=$format;
-	}
-	if($string != '') {
-		return date($nformat, smarty_make_timestamp($string));
-	} elseif (isset($default_date) && $default_date != '') {
-		return date($nformat, smarty_make_timestamp($default_date));
-	} else {
-		return;
-	}
-}
-/* vim: set expandtab: */
-?>
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