`date` frontmatter field analogous to `publishDate`?

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Before I open an issue, I wanted to confirm I wasn’t missing something. The docs show that a future publishDate causes entries to not be present in a build without the --buildFuture flag, and makes no such mention for the date field.

So the question: am I missing something, or should the docs be updated? Not sure I know enough to PR said docs update but I can at least open an issue for it.

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If we by publishDate mean the date that will eventually be set on each page, then that is the only one field that controls the time/date of publishing.

I think it helps to read this:

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So if we have:

  • no [frontmatter] settings in config.toml
  • a date field in a content file set to a future date
  • no other date related fields in said content file

We should expect a standard build to exclude that content file unless the —buildFuture flag is set - is that correct?

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Yes…