The date filter formats a date into another representation.
This was posted on: {{ post.date | date: "%A, %B %-d" }}
Becomes…
This was posted on: Thursday, April 9
We also supply convenience methods for the year, month, and date. These can be especially useful when combined with the group_by and where filters.
This is the same: {{ post.year }} {{ post.month}} {{ post.day }}
As this: {{ post.date | date: "%Y %-m %-d" }}
This is the same: 2015 4 9
As this: 2015 4 9
All results based on the reference date Thu Apr 9 17:03:07 -0400 EDT 2015.
| Directive | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
%Y |
Year | 2015 |
%y |
Year without century | 15 |
%C |
Century | 20 |
%m |
Month of year (01–12) | 04 |
%B |
Full month name | April |
%b |
Abbreviated month name | Apr |
%d |
Day of month (01–31) | 09 |
%j |
Day of year (001–366) | 099 |
%H |
Hour, 24-hour time (00–23) | 17 |
%I |
Hour, 12-hour time (01–12) | 05 |
%P |
Meridian indicator, lowercase | pm |
%p |
Meridian indicator, uppercase | PM |
%M |
Minute (00–59) | 03 |
%S |
Second (00–59) | 07 |
%z |
Numeric time zone (±hhmm) | -0400 |
%Z |
Time zone abbreviation | EDT |
%A |
Weekday | Thursday |
%a |
Abbreviated weekday | Thu |
%u |
Day of week starting on Monday (1–7) | 4 |
%w |
Day of week starting on Sunday (0–6) | 4 |
%W |
Week of year starting on Monday (00–53) | 14 |
%U |
Week of year starting on Sunday (00–53) | 14 |
%s |
Seconds since Unix Epoch | 1428613387 |
%c |
Date and time (%a %b %e %T %Y) |
Thu Apr 9 17:03:07 2015 |
%D |
Date (%m/%d/%y) |
04/09/15 |
%F |
ISO 8061 date | 2015-04-09 |
%v |
VMS date (%e-%b-%Y) |
9-Apr-2015 |
%r |
12-hour time (%I:%M:%S %p) |
05:03:07 PM |
%R |
24-hour time (%H:%M) |
17:03 |
%T |
24-hour time with seconds (%H:%M:%S) |
17:03:07 |
Note: By default, numeric fields are padded with a zero. This can be overridden by some of the following optional flags. Flags are placed immediately after the % and before the letter.
| Flag | Description | Result |
|---|---|---|
- (hyphen) |
remove padding (%-d) |
9 |
_ (underscore) |
pad with a space (%_m) |
|
^ (caret) |
up-case if possible (%^A) |
THURSDAY |