Get today's date in Jekyll with Liquid markup

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This (should) be easy, I think, but I'm unable to get today's date to show in a Jekyll page using Liquid markup. According to the documentation, I should be able to do this to get this date's year:

{{ 'now' | date: "%Y" }}

But all that gets rendered is the string now, not any formatted date. What am I doing wrong?

I assume this bug is already fixed. using jekyll 3.2.1 and `ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin14]` it's working — pedrorijo91, Jan 11 '17 at 17:09

Mark Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-17T20:32:25.180

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It didn't work for me either. It appears you've hit a current bug in the Ruby 1.9.3 support. There is a pull request that fixes the bug, but it's not incorporated yet. A workaround is listed, perhaps it will work for you:

{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

edited Sep 17 '12 at 20:32

answered Sep 17 '12 at 20:05

Mark Thomas

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or {{ site.time | date: '%Y' }} for 2014 – George Tsiokos Nov 29 '14 at 21:10
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Pretty sure this only gets the time from the last time you ran the `jekyll` command. Theoretically, if you don't update your site much, this could get stale. All in all, it's not the same as getting the current time. – Andrew M. Jul 16 '17 at 05:48
@menehune23 The point is moot anyway. The fix has been incorporated into jekyll, so the OP's code works and there is no need for this workaround anymore. – Mark Thomas Jul 16 '17 at 23:43
Agreed. Just wanted to point it out for those who don't know that it's in there now (and who haven't tried it for themselves) – Andrew M. Jul 17 '17 at 03:18
@menehune23 Not sure if you're implying that this workaround is any different than what the OP was trying to do. – Mark Thomas Jul 25 '17 at 12:24
Ah, so it seems both approaches only capture the time at build, not the time of access. Guess that makes sense in thinking about it, because you'd need JavaScript for the latter – Andrew M. Jul 25 '17 at 16:24
Lowercase `%y` would print two digit year like `22` whereas uppercase `%Y` would print full four digit `2022` – Csaba Toth Mar 18 '22 at 18:06

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '15 at 15:50

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To get the whole year, for example "2015", from the site.time, you can either use:

{{ site.time | date: '%Y' }}
# OR
20{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

To just get the last 2 digits from the year 2015, this will just output "15":

{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

answered Dec 03 '15 at 15:50

5ervant - techintel.github.io

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This basically repeats the comment after my answer. – Mark Thomas Feb 22 '16 at 14:50
@MarkThomas But still have the great explanation. – 5ervant - techintel.github.io Feb 23 '16 at 10:36
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@MarkThomas You should update your answer with the post-Ruby 1.9.3 answer. – Joshua Pinter Oct 28 '16 at 22:02

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 04 '19 at 14:43

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Perhaps the question title is misleading but I actually wanted today's date and not the year. This works for me:

{{ site.time | date: '%B %d, %Y' }}

Today it produced: January 04, 2019

answered Jan 04 '19 at 14:43

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 20 '20 at 12:21

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{{ site.time }} represent the time the site did get updated it is a fixed date not a dynamic one.

Such request require Javascript with Date.getTime() or Date.now() example:

<script>document.write(Math.round(Date.now() / (365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) + 1970 - 1));</script>

answered Jul 20 '20 at 12:21

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This is unnecessarily verbose. If you are going to use JS, then use `Date` for an object instead of `Date.now` an integer. `x = newDate(); x.getFullYear(); // 2021` – Michael Currin Apr 19 '21 at 08:38

Get today's date in Jekyll with Liquid markup

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