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Templating the Date field

The Date field allows content writers to add a date that represents a calendar day.

Get & output the date value

Here's how to get the value of a Date field and output it in a simple format.

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<span class="date">
    ${document.getDate("post.date").getValue()}
</span>
// Outputs in the following format: 2016-01-23

Other date formats

You can control the format of the date value by using asText() method and passing in the formatting options as shown below.

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<span class="date">
    ${document.getDate("post.date").asText("EEEE MMMM dd, yyyy")}
</span>
// Outputs in the following format: Saturday January 23, 2016

For more formatting options, explore the Java documentation for date formatting options.

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