International YAML date field

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In the YAML header, for the date field, you should really consider using, by default, a standard format, such as: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

The format I proposed above was inspired by the ISO 8601 standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

The current format “MM/DD/YYYY” makes no sense to, e.g., many European countries where, when “/” are specified, have this format: DD/MM/YYYY.

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You an use whatever date format you like in the date field of the page header. The blog skeleton just happens to have this US-style readable date to show that you can do it.

However, you can store it however you wish as long as PHP can determine it’s a valid date. ISO 8601) is fine to use too.

You can also change the format of the date on render with the Twig Date filter

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In the documentation there is reference to American style vs European style, but you state you can have whatever format. I’m running into an issue where I have the reference ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) and it displays incorrectly.

I’m not sure how best to address (without changing the input data, which I would rather not do).

Thanks for any pointers.

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Discovered that the results are different if the date field(s) are enclosed in double-quotes (") - “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS” seems to be working for me.

Just adding the note in case somebody else happens by.

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Thanks for the update!

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Hi!

Can’t we set the default format to be ISO 8601? I’m sorry, but this standard of US style using / and European style using - is no standard at all. Both characters, / and -, are used on both date formats. Specially when having a multi language team of writers, this can cause a big confusion. The only really international standard of date I know about is ISO 8601. I saw that we can use quotation marks to “enable” it, but this is too open to user errors.

ISO 8601 also have several advantages. Going a little off, for example, it would be really useful to use dates to order entries on file system:

  • 2010-01-02.entry-name;
  • 2011-05-02.entry-name;

Thanks!

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You could write a plugin to do this if you wished. I think it would only confuse things more for people if it were in the core.

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Thank you for your attention, @rhukster.