Date format

[maneesha]

The date format across the site should be: 10 May, 2024.

Examples where this should apply:

• Main blog list page
• Blog list by authors
• Blog list by tags
• Individual blog post
• "Last edited"

[maneesha]

This should be set globally. Just to test this out though, I changed the date format in terms.html from {{ .Date.Format "2006-02-03" }} to {{ .Date.Format "2 April, 2006"}}.

Note also that our dates are generally in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD). So from what I understand of how Hugo formats dates, even with the short date format, it should be "2006-01-02"

[AdamChlan]

@maneesha I have updated the date format on those pages. There is no way to set a default date format in Hugo, so I adjusted as needed.

[maneesha]

Thanks @AdamChlan It looks like we can set a date format in the site params and use it in the theme. I just tried it and it works, but that is not really what we want. Is it possible to set params at the theme level?

[regisphilibert]

We can use a parameter which could be overridden by the project. Something like:

{{ date.Format (site.Params "date_format" | default "2 April, 2006") }}

[AdamChlan]

@maneesha I merged in work to get this in place the best way for Hugo. You can see the work in this PR:

https://github.com/carpentries/tnd-carpentries-working/pull/93