diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm
index b67702655..862d4da5b 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/ddate.pm
@@ -11,20 +11,22 @@ sub import { #{{{
 sub checkconfig () { #{{{
 	if (! defined $config{timeformat} ||
 	    $config{timeformat} eq '%c') {
-		$config{timeformat}='on %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H';
+		$config{timeformat}='on %A, the %e of %B, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H';
 	}
 } #}}}
 
 sub IkiWiki::displaytime ($) { #{{{
 	my $time=shift;
-        eval q{use POSIX};
-        my $gregorian=POSIX::strftime("%d %m %Y", localtime($time));
-	my $date=`ddate +'$config{timeformat}' $gregorian`;
-	chomp $date;
-	if ($? || ! length $date) {
-		return "some time or other (hail Eris!)";
+	eval q{
+		use DateTime;
+		use DateTime::Calendar::Discordian;
+	};
+	if ($@) {
+		 return "some time or other ($@ -- hail Eris!)";
 	}
-	return $date;
+	my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $time);
+	my $dd = DateTime::Calendar::Discordian->from_object(object => $dt);
+	return $dd->strftime($IkiWiki::config{timeformat});
 } #}}}
 
 5
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5b77574a9..a18dd76d1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ ikiwiki (1.27) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     utf8 wikinames from there will be used properly.
   * Patch from Recai to kill utf-8 on the wiki name when generating the
     session cookie.
+  * Change ddate plugin to use the DateTime::Calendar::Discordian perl module.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:06:01 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:25:27 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (1.26) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/doc/plugins/ddate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/ddate.mdwn
index 26465d581..c35afe4ca 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/ddate.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/ddate.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 [[template id=plugin name=ddate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]]
 [[tag type/fun]]
-[[tag type/slow]]
 
 Enables use of Discordian dates. `--timeformat` can be used to change
 the date format; see `ddate(1)`.
+
+This plugin requires the DateTime and DateTime::Calendar::Discordian
+perl modules.