Get today's date in Jekyll with Liquid markup

Question

This (should) be easy, I think, but I'm unable to get today's date to show in a Jekyll page using Liquid markup. According to the documentation, I should be able to do this to get this date's year:

{{ 'now' | date: "%Y" }}

But all that gets rendered is the string now, not any formatted date. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It didn't work for me either. It appears you've hit a current bug in the Ruby 1.9.3 support. There is a pull request that fixes the bug, but it's not incorporated yet. A workaround is listed, perhaps it will work for you:

{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

Answer 2

To get the whole year, for example "2015", from the site.time, you can either use:

{{ site.time | date: '%Y' }}
# OR
20{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

To just get the last 2 digits from the year 2015, this will just output "15":

{{ site.time | date: '%y' }}

Answer 3

Perhaps the question title is misleading but I actually wanted today's date and not the year. This works for me:

{{ site.time | date: '%B %d, %Y' }}

Today it produced: January 04, 2019

Answer 4

{{ site.time }} represent the time the site did get updated it is a fixed date not a dynamic one.

Such request require Javascript with Date.getTime() or Date.now() example:

<script>document.write(Math.round(Date.now() / (365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000) + 1970 - 1));</script>