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Blog is showing current date instead of published date.

AlixOfCanada — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:59:09 GMT

Hi Everyone 🙂

I'm having this issue where when viewing blogs, the date reflects the current date and not the actual published date. I have another line of code temporarily in to preview, and it shows a completely wrong date. While viewing a blog archive, everything is correct.

Any tips?

Thanks.

Design Manager view of template used for individual blogs

Re: Blog is showing current date instead of published date.

jonchim — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:11:55 GMT

Hey @AlixOfCanada, I believe on certain of the older templates, i've noticed that with blogs they used to have a default date that wasn't the publish date. But once it was published it would show the correct date on the frontend. Are you looking at a preview link of the post or the live link?

Re: Blog is showing current date instead of published date.

webdew — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:05:06 GMT

Hi @AlixOfCanada ,

Please use the below snippet to display actual published date
<div class="blog-post__meta">
<time datetime="{{ content.publish_date }}" class="blog-post__timestamp">
{{ content.publishDate|datetimeformat('%B %e, %Y') }}

</time>
</div>

Hope this helps!

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Thanks and Regard.

Re: Blog is showing current date instead of published date.

AlixOfCanada — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:17:23 GMT

Hey 🙂

Here's an example of what one of our posted blogs looks like. Note that this screenshot is outside the preview and the blog was actually posted on the 18th.