Working with Dates

There are a number of different ways to output Dates with handlebars.

Dates can be formatted to whatever way you need them output by using the dateFormat Helper.

The built-in dateElement Helper allows you to get the Date from a Date element to pass to the dateFormat Helper.

Here are some examples of the dateFormat Helper in action:

Without dateFormat

{{publish element="Date element"}}

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With dateFormat (using a Date element)

In this example we use the dateElement Helper to allow us to format dates returned from a Date content element

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") }}

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With dateFormat (using contentLastModifiedDate)

In this example we use the dateElement Helper to allow us to format dates returned from the contentLastModifiedDate Helper.

{{dateFormat (contentLastModifiedDate) }}

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With dateFormat value "full"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "full" }}

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With dateFormat value "long"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "long" }}

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With dateFormat value "medium"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "medium" }}

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With dateFormat value "short"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "short" }}

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With dateFormat value "long" and timeFormat value "full"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "long" time="full" }}

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With dateFormat value "long" and timeFormat value "long"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "long" time="long" }}

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With dateFormat value "long" and timeFormat value "medium"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "long" time="medium" }}

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With dateFormat value "long" and timeFormat value "short"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "long" time="short" }}

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With dateFormat value "YYYY/MM/dd hh:mma"

{{dateFormat (dateElement element="Date element") "YYYY/MM/dd hh:mma" }}