How to represent an 'ongoing' date?

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i am sorting from some data files, and some dates are “ongoing” or “till present day” etc. how can i represent this in a valid date format so i can sort it?

2

Could you give a more specific example?

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from the repo: https://gitlab.com/fustkilas/oovoo

if you see the file: https://gitlab.com/fustkilas/oovoo/blob/master/data/shows/show-show.yaml

i’ve put a finnissage date of 2026, whereas what i really wanna say is that this event is still going on, it is an ongoing event.

how can i represent this so that it is still a valid date, and is sortable?

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Currently, it is a valid date, and it is sortable.

I think picking some date in the future, to represent it as an ongoing date, as you have done, is fine.

5

that doesnt cut it for me. this is an ugly workaround.
is there any way of representing ongoing as a valid date-format?

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Perhaps you could set a flag in your YAML data file, something like

ongoing: true

Then in your templates, you could customize how this is displayed.

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ah i never thought of it this way, thank you @zwbetz