ComboStrap - Date Component

About

With the date component, you could format any date:

• the today's date
• any string date
• or any page date attribute such as:
  • date_created or date_modified of a page
  • date_published (if specified, see ComboStrap Metadata - Published Date)
  • date_start or date_end of an event

Example

Today's date

• The markup

<date/>

• The output is a date formatted to the default format.

<cache expiration="@daily"/>

Today's date - short format

• Today's date with a short month description and the day number US style

<date format="%h %d"/>

• The output:

Today's date in French

• The markup with the locale attribute with just the region (ie country) as value.

<date locale="fr"/>

• The output is a date formatted with French word.

Date specified manually

• When you specify a date, you need to write it in a accepted date format

<date format="%A">2021-09-27</date>

• The output gives the day name of the date (ie %A)

Date of a page

You can even print a date metadata of a page.

• For instance, for the published date of this article

<date>$date_published</date>

• The output will be:

Syntax

• For the today's date

<date format="formatValue" lang="language"/>

• When specifying a date value

<date format="formatValue" lang="language">dateValue</date>

where:

• format is any format accepted by the strftime function
• language is a language value. You can also just use the country value (for instance, the value us is valid).
• dateValue is:
  • one of the accepted date format
  • or any page date metadata.