Formatting dates?

[Brian Vallelunga]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I can't seem to get a DateTime to format properly.

If I do something like:

{{ StartDate }}

I get the default DateTime format. If I do:

{{ StartDate | date "%B" }}

I get: B

According to the docs, I should get the full month. What's wrong with this?

[Tim Jones]

Hi Brian,

You're missing a colon before the formatting parameter:

{{ StartDate | date: "%B" }}

Hope that helps,

Tim

[Gregory Menvielle]

Tim and Brian,
I am running into a similar issue as Brian and could not find another
bit of info on the wiki.
When trying to format the date I would expect StartDate (using Brian's
example) to be set as a DateTime correct?

Thank you...and Thank you Tim for this great port to .Net, really
useful!

Gregory

[Tim Jones]

Hi Gregory,

Actually the Date filter will call ToString() on whatever is passed in, and then pass the result of that to DateTime.TryParse().

https://github.com/formosatek/dotliquid/blob/master/src/DotLiquid/StandardFilters.cs#L469

So you can use either a DateTime, or a String.

Tim

[Gregory Menvielle]

Tim,
Sorry to bug you again, I must be missing a simple step. Whether I do:
{{ '2012-3-1' | date:"%B" }} or...
{{ '3/2/2012' | date:"%B" }} or any other combination
I always get the full date displayed rather than the proper
conversion. Would you have any suggestions as to where to look next?

Thank you,
Gregory

On Feb 5, 9:06 pm, Tim Jones <t...@timjones.tw> wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> Actually the Date filter will call ToString() on whatever is passed in, and

> then pass the result of that to DateTime.TryParse().https://github.com/formosatek/dotliquid/blob/master/src/DotLiquid/Sta...

[Tim Jones]

Hi Gregory,

I see the problem now. DotLiquid supports two styles of date format strings - .NET, and Ruby. You can toggle between the two using

Liquid.UseRubyDateFormat = [true/false];

You're using a Ruby date format string, but presumably UseRubyDateFormat is set to false.

I've made a note of this on the wiki page, because it's not obvious.

Thanks,

Tim

[Gregory Menvielle]

Thank you Tim.
For those of you keeping track at home and having a similar issue as
mine, an important elements to get it to work that I missed at first:
The format is: {{  '3/2/2012' | Date:"%B" }}   and not {{  '3/2/2012'
| date:"%B" }}   (need an upper case D for Date)

On Feb 7, 10:36 pm, Tim Jones <t...@timjones.tw> wrote:
> Hi Gregory,
>
> I see the problem now. DotLiquid supports two styles of date format strings
> - .NET, and Ruby. You can toggle between the two using
>
> Liquid.UseRubyDateFormat = [true/false];
>
> You're using a Ruby date format string, but presumably UseRubyDateFormat is
> set to false.
>

> I've made a note of this on the wiki page<https://github.com/formosatek/dotliquid/wiki/DotLiquid-for-Designers>,

[Tim Jones]

I think this only applies if you have Template.NamingConvention set to CSharpNamingConvention? By default it uses RubyNamingConvention, which would use lower-case filter names.

[Mo]

Hello, what if I have a date already in the template, like  {{  {{date_variable}}  | date:"%B" }} , it will not work on it, even if I use like this {{  '{{date_variable}}'  | date:"%B" }}

How can I reference it like this? 

[Tim Jones]

Can't you just use this? I'm not sure what you mean by "already in the template".

{{ date_variable | date:"%B" }}

Tim