Using `:filename` in front matter

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Continuing the discussion from Set date in front matter from `hugo new` command:

Are there any other steps to having this work aside from adding the following to config.yaml?

frontmatter:
  date:
  - :filename
  - :default

My archetypes/journal.md is:

---
title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}"
date: {{ .Date }}
---

If I do hugo new journal/2018-02-22-mypage.md I get:

---
title: "2018 02 22 Mypage"
date: 2022-11-07T17:57:51-08:00
---

What am I missing? :thinking:

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Yes, but when you render {{ .Date }} it gets it from the filename. The date value in your markdown is a fallback.

Or to put it another way, the date in your front matter is superfluous, irrelevant, and redundant in this configuration.

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Oh, okay! So I can just leave date: out of my frontmatter, as long as I include it in the filename?

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Yes.

If you want to grab the date from the filename, and stuff it into the date in front matter when you create the file, do this in your archetype:

date = {{ .File.ContentBaseName | replaceRE `(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}).*` "$1" }}

But that doesn’t add any value unless you later remove the date from the filename.

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