Document lastmod

[frank06]

I have two dates in my front matter:

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date = "2015-07-14T12:38:31-03:00"
updated = "2015-08-13T17:20:01-03:00"

In the template I can call {{ .Date.Format "January 2, 2006" }} but {{ .Params.updated.Format "January 2, 2006" }} fails with can't evaluate field Format in type interface {}. Or do I have to specify the type of updated somewhere?

[bep]

It seems undocumented, but you should use lastmod instead of inventing your own.

We have a discussion board more suitable for questions.

[frank06]

Thanks. But isn't that a bug? I have two dates exactly the same: one works and the other doesn't. If I wanted to display randomdate = "2003-08-13T17:20:01-03:00"?

[bep]

Yea... maybe. But that would be a bug/feature request in the TOML parser, see https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml

The thing is, for date and lastmod we know what to parse. For unknown cases, we take what the front matter parser gives us, in this case an ìnterface{}.

[frank06]

Sorry, I should ask this in the discussion board. But for the record, {{ .Lastmod.Format "January 2, 2006" }} does not print the latest modified date (I'm modifying the file now, and it prints yesterday's date).

[bep]

and what is the value of

lastmod

in that file's front matter?

If not set, it inherits the datevalue. All this would be clear if documented (it seems like you think it's connected to the last changed timestamp of the file, it isn't). Hopefully. And as this is an open source project, pull requests are always welcome!

[frank06]

Thanks @bep . I understand now, date and lastmod are both casted to Date but you need to supply them. 👍 to add this to the docs!

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