Date Display Customization?

[parkr]

I noticed that the date is displayed only as %d-%b-%y, and there's no way to customize it. I think it'd be useful for it to be customizable. Here are the three approaches I think might be wise:

• This filter returns just the Time object, and users can pass them to the date filter and customize the output
• Users can set a default value in their _config.yml that is then used to parse the Time object into a string. Would apply to all output, so they'd have to really like this display.
• A combination of the two, where if the default is nil, then we return Time otherwise, we render it as a String

Thoughts?

[gjtorikian]

I'm in favor of option 1; I'll set about implementing it. Reason being that maybe you want a different date formats in different parts of the page for some reason.

Also can't we just pass the format directly through the tag? Like {% last_modified_at %b-%d-%Y %}.

[parkr]

Yeah, you can throw the format in as an argument. So it returns the time object if there's no format, or a formatted string if there is?