Change blog post date to include year

Site URL: http://www.snakegoddess.com

Hi all,

On my website http://www.snakegoddess.com on the single blog post page the date say Mar 20. I want it to say Mar 20, 2020

How can I change this?

I'd also like to know this if anyone can help? 7.1

22 hours ago, JeroenB said:

the date say Mar 20. I want it to say Mar 20, 2020

@JeroenB Are you referring to the date shown beside the title when a single blog post is shown (as highlighted below)? 

15 minutes ago, paul2009 said:

@JeroenB Are you referring to the date shown beside the title when a single blog post is shown (as highlighted below)? 

Yes. That's the one that should be changed to Mar 20, 2020.

Hi Paul,

Thank you so much for tackling this problem. It works like a charm on Chrome and Firefox, however it doesn't go quite right with Safari. The year shows up as NaN, see attachment. Tested it on desktop and mobile with the same results.

Also (and this is extra and nice to have) we noticed that on the blog page (https://www.snakegoddess.com/blog) the date format is off too, it says 03/20/20 instead of Mar 20, 2020 which is used on the other places in the website.

You're right, thanks for pointing that out. Safari doesn't parse some date formats properly. I've updated the post 😀

5 minutes ago, paul2009 said:

You're right, thanks for pointing that out. Safari doesn't parse some date formats properly. I've updated the post 😀

 

 

You are a hero! Thank you! Is it a lot of extra trouble to get the date consistent site wide? So to also change it in the /blog page? In my opinion this should be standard to begin with and it's a flaw in the squarespace 7.1 templates.

14 minutes ago, JeroenB said:

In my opinion this should be standard to begin with

I agree Squarespace's priority is (understandably) to develop enough to make it workable and I expect they'll fix these design flaws soon. 

18 minutes ago, JeroenB said:

Is it a lot of extra trouble to get the date consistent site wide?

I will follow up on your question about the other date, but it probably won't be today as I'm extremely busy.

Stay safe.

P

2 hours ago, paul2009 said:

I will follow up on your question about the other date, but it probably won't be today as I'm extremely busy.

Stay safe.

P

Looking forward to it and thanks again!

Thanks for this Paul. My client will be happy - you're a total star!

Will be interested to make the format English too when you have time ...

On 3/25/2020 at 2:57 PM, paul2009 said:

 

I will follow up on your question about the other date, but it probably won't be today as I'm extremely busy.

Stay safe.

P

Hi Paul,

I hope you're well. Do you know a solution for the other dates yet?

I have an international audience: English/Continental-style dates don’t make sense to the Americans and U.S.-style doesn’t make sense to anyone else anywhere. I want to format my dates in universally readable ISO 8601 format in 7.1. Is there any hope?

If you can't change this easily, it should at least default to March 20, 2020. Not sure who picked the short month and day only.

On 4/23/2020 at 5:51 AM, ChrisBartow said:

If you can't change this easily, it should at least default to March 20, 2020. Not sure who picked the short month and day only.

Squarespace started that, so we just followed that to keep it as easy as possible. But yes, you are right.

Hey, y'all. @paul2009 especially. First, thanks for saving all of us with the custom code. Second, do you or anyone know if there's a way for it to just spell out the whole month? As a grammar nerd, it annoys me to see "Oct" and not "Oct." with the period, but could get around that if it just spelled out "October" instead. Not the end of the world, but thought I'd try asking.

Thanks, everyone!

1 hour ago, brandi_sqspace said:

As a grammar nerd, it annoys me to see "Oct" and not "Oct." with the period, but could get around that if it just spelled out "October" instead.

It should be possible 🙂. The formatting is different for the blog list and the blog posts, and it also depends on the site's region settings, so I'd need to see the site to provide specific information.

Also seconding this. Ideally, I'd like a way to have the date on Blog List pages as "YYYY-MM-DD" and on Blog themselves, "October 20, 2020".

I have the same request! I'd also like to add the day of the week and the month spelled out instead of its abbreviated form. 

As an example, I'd like my blog posts date format to look like:
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Any advice here on how to make this happen?

Just wanted to say that it's January of 2023 and the code included on the blog post still helped me add the year to the individual blog post pages. Thank you for your help with this! So simple.

I'm new to squarespace. Do I really have to upgrade from personal to business to display the year in my blog section? From what I understand, the only way to format the date is with custom scripts. I don't understand why this is so difficult (or expensive).

I've been searching for this solution and am delighted to have found it for my [business plan] website with blog posts going back years. It was crazy that on my Blog Post summary page, all the posts are identified by full date, but on each individual page, they are not. Someone scrolling through old posts can easily have no idea of the proper time context of each post. So thank you.

But . . . gotta agree with @aht, this should be included in all plans. There is no reason to limit this minuscule bit of clarity from lower tier plans.

On 3/13/2023 at 10:32 PM, aht said:

I'm new to squarespace. Do I really have to upgrade from personal to business to display the year in my blog section? From what I understand, the only way to format the date is with custom scripts. I don't understand why this is so difficult (or expensive).

Are you still in need of the solution for your personal plan?