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Greetings,

Hmm, don’t know if this is a totally stupid question or not, but:

I was checking the user guide regarding date formats, and found the following:

{date format="%F %d %Y"}

When I tried using that, all I get is “{date format="%F %d %Y"}” (it’s not rendered as the date, but just as the code).

However, when I use

{current_time format="%F %d %Y"}

I get the date as I’m expecting.

Just curious what is going on with that. Thanks in advance.

I think perhaps the wording might need updating in the documentation as what is meant by {date format=""} is if you had a custom field with the name of date.

The current_time works as that is an actual built in date variable.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark.

I was thinking it was something like that, it just wasn’t clear to me.

Cheers!

Hey guys,

Yes, the {date} is just a sample variable - not a real one.  It’s intended to just be an example of how you’d use format=, it may be worth us changing that to a global variable that actually works. I’ll flag that with our documentation team.

Other than that, you guys are all set?

Yup, that’s clear now to me. It was just a bit confusing to see it written as code you would insert, so perhaps a little touch-up in the documentation would be good.

Thanks!

No worries, strudel.  Already sent to my team!

If anything else comes up, just let us know.  Thank you.