Time
So, much ado about date and time stampings. The format for dates in Hugo by default is:
date: 2018-11-19T10:27:05-05:00
This date format appears to be a version from RFC 3339, section 5.8.
To generate the time on a BSD machine in this format, you’ll need to generate a custom format string for the date option. This will mean perusing strftime(3) once again, unless you can remember all those little conversion specs.
To save you (and me) time later, here is how to format the string for the date(1) command.
The first try is:
date -j “+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z”
This produces
2018-11-19T10:57:46-0500
which is almost good except it’s missing the last colon between the hours and minutes in the timezone 2018-11-19T10:57:46-0500
There’s isn’t an option on the strftime(3) page for formatting the timezone like that, so we’ll have to fake it:
date -j “+%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S-05:00”
and then remember to change it during the changes to and from Daylight Savings Time
OR, if you don’t want to use a fakely edited timezone, just insert your own colon (’:’) between the timezone hours and minutes.
– Jim B.
NB: I had to use markup: mmark and smartypants: false in the frontmatter of this document to get the quotes working correctly. Mmark is better for using quotes in technical documents.