Blog post date-only format

[brabster]

I notice that blog post dates have a time/timezone element, but it always shows midnight UTC for my content (and the mkdocs-material blog)

Seems a bit unnecessarily cluttered - I can't see a way to tell mkdocs-material to just format as a date. Maybe I missed an option?

[alexvoss]

A very similar question was asked just yesterday: #6996. The documentation suggests that you can create your own format using the Babel pattern .

Generally, it is often a good idea to search the forum as it does contain a lot of answers already.

[squidfunk]

Additionally, this is not the default for post_date_format, so it was already changed to another value. The default is long, resulting in locale-aware formatted dates like "January 31, 2024", so it sounds like the documentation was already consulted.

[alexvoss]

@squidfunk, I also get a date and time for posts:

Reproduction:

9.5.16+insiders.4.53.4-datetime-blog.zip

[squidfunk]

Please create a new issue then.

[alexvoss]

Posted: #7001 Seems to be a recent regression.

[brabster]

I hadn't set anything explicitly for date formatting - as far as I can tell the full date and and time as in my screenshots is what you get by default - mkdocs section here https://github.com/brabster/tw-site-mkdocs/blob/a85f9d83084196f33e4098016357081fb8a78a2b/mkdocs.yml#L31

I got confused by https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/plugins/blog/#config.post_date_format - the examples for the shortcodes suggested that I'd get a date, but I was seeing a datetime - which is why I asked the question.

If I do override the format then I can make it just be the date https://github.com/brabster/tw-site-mkdocs/blob/5df674e90a11e964114d2082d71e2d49b05a95ff/mkdocs.yml#L34 - all working for me now