Deciphering Life: One Bit at a Time - Customizing the Displayed Date in Quarto Pubs

If you want to change how the date is displayed in your {quarto} documents, this is handy.

One, decide what date you want included:

now
today
last-modified (this is my favorite, because I can tell if I’ve got the most recent version)

Then, you can change how the date is displayed using the date-format option.

My personal preference is for something like 2022-12-08 13:42, to avoid any ambiguity when I’m generating reports for others.

---
date: last-modified
date-format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm
---

Reuse

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{mflight2022,
  author = {Robert M Flight},
  title = {Customizing the {Displayed} {Date} in {Quarto} {Pubs}},
  date = {2022-12-08},
  url = {https://rmflight.github.io/posts/2022-12-08-customizing-the-displayed-date-in-quarto-pubs},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Robert M Flight. 2022. “Customizing the Displayed Date in Quarto Pubs.” December 8, 2022. https://rmflight.github.io/posts/2022-12-08-customizing-the-displayed-date-in-quarto-pubs.