How to use and define UTC time in the frontmatter

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There’s only one mention of UTC but that’s when you would want to convert time.

I don’t want to convert time.

I want the time that I define in my frontmatter to strictly be UTC

This works:

date: 2019-10-04 18:05:00

I don’t know why this doesn’t:

date: 2019-10-04 18:05:00 UTC

I would try

date: 2019-10-04 18:05:00 0000

because there’s -0700 in the docs, but I’m guessing that’s GMT-7, not UTC-7 which is not quite the same thing unfortunately because GMT is not the same all year around (to my knowledge, I might be wrong but UTC is just easier for me to deal with on the frontend).

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archetypes/default.md:

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date = {{ now.UTC.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-0700" }}
draft = true
title = "{{ replace .Name `-` ` ` | title }}"
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What about using Z?
2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00

https://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants

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