Add current date and time to Hugo page front matter

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Hi there

is there a way to add something like this in the Hugo front matter

lastmod: {{ now.date}}

instead of

lastmod: 2020-06-17T14:23:39+01:00

as it will be great if the page can update this every time I modify and save a .md file

currently I do it manually which I forgot all the time and also it is extra work to do for no reason if Hugo can do it for me using those brackets things of gotemplate

thanks

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You need to use a Hugo Archetype for this and execute the command hugo new <path-to-file>

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Instead of defining lastmod in front matter, use the git author date or the file modification time when displaying .Lastmod on a page.

See:

With this site configuration…

enableGitInfo = true

[frontmatter]
lastmod = [':git', ':fileModTime']

…the .Lastmod page method will first try to retrieve the git author date. If that fails, it will look at the file modification time (mtime).

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it took me some time to understand this but it works like magic thanks alot

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I am sorry I did not understand what you mean by Hugo new

I think this creates a new page

from what I understand archetype is used when I create a Hugo page but can I update the existing page using archetype to update the modification date?

thanks

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Archetypes are used with the command hugo new to create a new content file.
You cannot update the modification date with that command.
Use J Mooring’s solution for automatic lastmod updates.

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