'Invalid DateTime' in article about eleventy-netlify-boilerplate

[danurbanowicz]

Thanks for pointing out this little discrepancy.

In the individual post template, we really ought to be using page.date instead of date. Do you mind checking if changing this in your layouts/post.njk fixes the invalid datetime?

Thanks!

[coderkind]

Thanks for replying!

This is what is output for each of the different dates when referenced in the layouts/post.njk file:

• date: 2019-08-06
• page.date: Tue Aug 06 2019 01:00:00 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)
• machineDate:
• readableDate:

The last two being empty values. Neither of the first two match the date format on the postslist page.

[danurbanowicz]

Hmmm I've just noticed that in your post frontmatter you have your date value set as a string e.g.

date: "2019-08-06"

But the date filters are probably expecting a valid YAML date value e.g.

date: 2019-08-06

[coderkind]

Hmm; there's no option in Wordpress to format dates in a particular way when exporting, so presumably the dates in quotes is the default format? I was following this tutorial by the way (which links to your boilerplate).

[danurbanowicz]

OK, so using {{ page.date | machineDate }} and {{ page.date | readableDate }} in layouts/post.njk with the post frontmatter date: "2019-08-06" as supplied by your Wordpress export is parsing correctly for me on a copy of your repo.

Can you try this if you haven't already? Thanks

[coderkind]

Thanks; that's fixed it 👍

I thought I tried page. prefixing at some stage, but obviously not. Thanks once again :)