Hey Folks, I think I saw another post about this issue, but I am not familiar enough the the technical details of Hugo yet to understand it. But the issue is that I am using the simple BeautifulHugo theme, and all of my posts are showing up on the main posts page with a published date of January 1, …

Maybe? Not enough info. VincentTam/beautifulhugo/-/blob/dev/exampleSite/config.toml#L22 It seems the theme has everything covered, from missing date (“IsZero”) to last mod, so… don’t really know.

@sephore thanks so much for the suggestion. Yes, I have the dateFormat setting set in the config.toml file, just as in the example. I can update the original post with the full config.toml, as it is not very big. Would have been nice if it was that simple :). Not sure what the issue is. But thanks a…

Oh man, it was that simple eh. I don’t even know how that // got in there. But this did work. Thanks so much for you help on this. I just figured that was part of the frontmatter template. Thanks again.

Issue with blog post dates showing as January 1, 0001

sephore September 8, 2020, 3:55pm 4

Right, just found and cloned the repo. For example:

date: 2020-09-06T00:22:14-04:00 //

Removing the "//" should solve the problem.

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Issue with blog post dates showing as January 1, 0001

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