r:date_format

This outputs a date. It can be used to pull the date from when a blog post or page was published, output the time, day, and/or year on page render, and has among many other uses.

Attribute Options

format - Tells the tag how to output the date. For example: 11/01/14 or November 1, 2014. Acceptable values come from strftime or are one of the following three standard values: rfc822, iso8601, httpdate.

value - This is the string you're getting from CleanSlate (aka the whole point of this tag). Under the hood, CleanSlate uses the Chronic library to parse the value attribute. So any date/time value supported by Chronic can be parsed.

Example:

<r:date_format format="%Y" value="now" />

{{ page.published_at | date: "%A, %B %d, %Y" }}

This outputs a date. It can be used to pull the date from when a blog post or page was published, output the time, day, and/or year on page render. It has many other uses.

In Liquid, you access the native date via {{ page.published_at }} or {{ article.published_at }}, then pipe in the date filter to output the date in the format you desire.

Under the hood, CleanSlate uses the Chronic library to parse the original value. So, any date/time value supported by Chronic can be parsed.

Filter options

date - Tells the tag how to output the date. For example: 11/01/14, now, or November 1, 2014. Acceptable values come from strftime.

date_iso8601 - Outputs a date in ISO 8601 format, eg: 2018-05-09T18:02:37-04:00.

date_rfc2822 - Outputs a date in Internet Message Format, eg: Wed, 09 May 2018 18:02:37 -0400.

Examples:

{{ page.published_at | date: "%A, %B %d, %Y" }}
<!-- Outputs: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 -->

{{ article.published_at | date: "%Y" }}
<!-- Outputs: 2021 -->

{{ page.updated_at | date_rfc2822 }}
<!-- Outputs: Wed, 09 May 2018 18:02:37 -0400 -->

This page was last updated at {{ "now" | date: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" }}.
<!-- Outputs: This page was last updated at 2019-09-19 17:48. -->

<p>Seconds since 1970: {{ "now" | date: "%s" }}</p>
<!-- Outputs: Seconds since 1970: 1614897261 -->