Content Dates

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Setting a Content Date in front matter

Add a date variable to your front matter to override the default date (last modified date) and customize how the file is sorted in a collection.

---
date: 2023-04-25
---

Griffin expects the date value to be a valid ISO 8601 date.

Fallback value

When parsing content files, Griffin will attempt to read from the date front matter variable and convert it to a ISO 8601 date. If this conversion fails or the variable is undefined in the front matter, Griffin will instead use the file's last modified date (ctime in File.Stat)