Chase Adams
Posted on July 24, 2018
Previously when generating new blog articles, adding dates to Markdown frontmatter was a manual step that required me to:
- Determine the date
- Convert what I read into the date format I use for frontmatter
As of VS Code release 1.20, Snippets have access to the current date and time with one of the following variables:
CURRENT_YEAR
CURRENT_YEAR_SHORT
CURRENT_MONTH
CURRENT_DATE
CURRENT_HOUR
CURRENT_MINUTE
CURRENT_SECOND
Now if I want a frontmatter "date" for Markdown for the current year, month and day (YYYY-MM-DD
), I can add the following to my snippet:
date: \"$CURRENT_YEAR-$CURRENT_MONTH-$CURRENT_DATE\"
Using the published date of this post, the expanded snippet produces:
date: "2018-07-24"
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Chase Adams
Posted on July 24, 2018
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