Is there a way to treat a wiki-link date as a date value?

[misaxi]

facing the trouble in the workflow and have to decide if to use a linked date:: [[2021-04-30]] or date:: 2021-04-30

Maybe i'm missing the proper way to handle this. but plaintext get recognized as date properly, but wikilink does not.

Tried to hack around file.field due to file not created , even replace('[', ''), but didn't work properly.

If the wikilink date can be recognized as date by default, would be a nice productivity boost.

[rishifter]

Agree with this. This speaks to a broader request for the date() method to accept varying kinds of text and extract date from it.

[CovetingEpiphany2152]

+1. We need some way to convert links to date.
One might argue that we can do field.file.day, however, if the link is a dangling link (unlinked reference), this would not work.
I also think that having the ability to extract the string in a link to be useful.

[blacksmithgu]

I've added date(<link>), which tries to infer the date from the (1) display, then (2) path, then (3) from the file.day property of the file if it exists.