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_YEARCURRENT_YEAR_SHORTCURRENT_MONTHCURRENT_DATECURRENT_HOURCURRENT_MINUTECURRENT_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"
Top comments (2)
Thanks for this :)
I don't see the snippet, "fm"?