Octopress Date Format

Put nicely formatted dates on any post or page.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'octopress-date-format'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install octopress-date-format

Next add it to your gems list in Jekyll's _config.yml

gems:
  - octopress-date-format

Any post (or page with a date) will automatically have some new date attributes.

• date - The date, 2014-07-03 14:08:00 +0000
• date_text - The formatted date, Jul 3rd, 2014
• time_text - The formatted time, 2:08 pm
• date_xml - The XML schema formatted date, 2014-07-03T14:08:00+00:00
• date_html - The formatted date in a <time> tag.
• date_time_html - The formatted date and time in a <time> tag.

Here's an example of what would be rendered with {{ post.date_time_html }}.

<time class='entry-date' datetime='2014-07-03T14:08:00+00:00'>
  <span class='date'>
    <span class='date-month'>Jul</span>
    <span class='date-day'>3</span><span class='date-suffix'>rd</span>,
    <span class='date-year'>2014</span>
  </span>
  <span class='time'>2:08 pm</span>
</time>

If you update a post or page and want to display this in a template, add this to YAML front-matter, date_updated: 2014-07-03 15:03:15 and your post will have updated date attributes as well.

• updated - The date, 2014-07-03 15:03:15 +0000
• date_updated_text - The formatted date, Jul 3rd, 2014
• time_updated_text - The formatted time, 3:03 pm
• date_updated_xml - The XML schema formatted date, 2014-07-03T15:03:15+00:00
• date_updated_html - The formatted date in a <time> tag.
• date_time_updated_html - The formatted date and time in a <time> tag.

Of course you can use Liquid conditionals when outputting an updated date.

{% if post.updated %}Updated: {{ post.date_time_updated_html }}{% endif %}

You may change the formatting of the dates and times in Jekyll's configuration file. Here are the defaults:

date_format: 'ordinal'     # July 3rd, 2014
time_format: '%-I:%M %P'   # 2:08 pm

To choose a different format, use a Ruby strftime compatible string. For example:

date_format: "%Y-%m-%d"  # e.g. 2014-07-03
time_format: "%H:%M"     # 24 hour time

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/octopress/date-format/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2013 Brandon Mathis

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