How to get a date to not have time

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How can I get a date format of April 30, 2019?
My achetype = date: {{ .Date }}
This generates
date: 2019-04-30T12:50:44-06:00 in front matter
My html is

<h3>
        Episode # 
        {{ range last 1 .Pages}}
            {{.Params.episodeNumber}}
        {{end}}
         - 
        {{ range last 1 .Pages}}
            {{.Params.title}}
        {{end}}
        - 
        {{ range last 1 .Pages}}
            {{.Params.date}}
        {{end}}
    </h3>

This produces:
### Episode # 3 - Rockgasms - 2019-04-27 23:43:11 -0600 MDT

I can see there is a Date.Format but not guidance on where you use it, is it in the archetype, or in the html. I’ve honestly been trying to get this tor work for over 4 hours and nothing I try works.
I am pretty much at the point of just taking the date off of that section of the site but the perfectionist side really wants it to work.

2

Hi, what you want is:

{{ .Date.Format "January 2, 2006" }}

GoLang date formatting in kinda peculiar in that way. See this doc for more examples: https://gohugo.io/functions/format/#hugo-date-and-time-templating-reference

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3

Thank you for the response, is that in the archetype default file I put that?

4

Nope. Put that in your template

5

Thank you so much. Fixed it now.

6

You can also specify this in your archetype file(s), e.g., here’s an excerpt of one of my archetype files:

date: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}
# publishDate: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}
# lastmod: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}
## next are non-built-in parameters
# datecreated: {{ dateFormat "2006-01-02" .Date }}

When I publish a doc, I edit and uncomment the publishDate line. When I modify a doc after publication, I edit and uncomment the lastmod line.

BTW, I have not published my Hugo site yet :crazy_face:

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@_nm is right. But I would be careful with this approach because if you ever want the “time” part of the date in the future you’ll be out of luck