Get today's date in Jekyll with Liquid markup

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Jeff Pratt picture Jeff Pratt · Sep 17, 2012 · Viewed 20.8k times · Source

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?

Answer

Mark Thomas picture Mark Thomas · Sep 17, 2012

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' }}

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