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CURRENT_DATETIME in metafields

See original GitHub issue

Hi! I’m having the config:

prose:
  metadata:
    - name: "when"
        field:
          element: "text"
          label: "When"
          help: "The date of the event"
          placeholder: CURRENT_DATETIME
          type: "datetime"

but it does not insert the date, instead just outputs CURRENT_DATETIME text. Is there anything I can do about it? Thanks.

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Created 7 years ago
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dereklieucommented, Jun 16, 2016

I’m glad you can use this, even though I understand it’s not your preferred solution. At this point I don’t think we will move forward with this feature, and I’ve clarified the documentation to say that CURRENT_DATETIME is meant to be a value and not a placeholder so hopefully that clears the confusion for future users.

My thinking is that the CURRENT_DATETIME variable is really better suited to provide the date of creation to parsers and other machines, and not well-suited for humans to enter a date, since ISO is a weird format that’s easy to get wrong. For that, again, I think a dedicated date meta field serves the purpose better.

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dycommented, Jun 16, 2016

@dereklieu thank you for the solution, that is nice, I will use that. But I would recomment to look at the issue also as a bug-report or a request whether it is a bug or feature, as far there is no certainty about it 😃