Comments: Allow to pass $comment_ID parameter to get_comment_time().

Props spacedmonkey, travisaxton, SergeyBiryukov, d-signed, audrasjb, rudlinkon, h4l9k, mukesh27, costdev.
Fixes #52322.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@55284 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82

Author: audrasjb

src/wp-includes/comment-template.php

@@ -1031,15 +1031,22 @@ function comment_text( $comment_ID = 0, $args = array() ) {
  * Retrieves the comment time of the current comment.
  *
  * @since 1.5.0
+ * @since 6.2.0 Added the ability for `$comment_ID` to also accept a WP_Comment object.
  *
- * @param string $format    Optional. PHP time format. Defaults to the 'time_format' option.
- * @param bool   $gmt       Optional. Whether to use the GMT date. Default false.
- * @param bool   $translate Optional. Whether to translate the time (for use in feeds).
- *                          Default true.
+ * @param string         $format     Optional. PHP date format. Defaults to the 'time_format' option.
+ * @param bool           $gmt        Optional. Whether to use the GMT date. Default false.
+ * @param bool           $translate  Optional. Whether to translate the time (for use in feeds).
+ *                                   Default true.
+ * @param int|WP_Comment $comment_ID Optional. WP_Comment or ID of the comment for which to get the date.
+ *                                   Default is 0, or the global comment.
  * @return string The formatted time.
  */
-function get_comment_time( $format = '', $gmt = false, $translate = true ) {
-	$comment = get_comment();
+function get_comment_time( $format = '', $gmt = false, $translate = true, $comment_ID = 0 ) {
+	$comment = get_comment( $comment_ID );
+
+	if ( null === $comment ) {
+		return '';
+	}
 
 	$comment_date = $gmt ? $comment->comment_date_gmt : $comment->comment_date;