From 1710fd720c864dc33f79b15a830c5f1a3726f87b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Faught <willfaught@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:35:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add paigedateformat site parameter

---
 README.md                        | 3 ++-
 layouts/partials/paige-date.html | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79c57fd8..f951b3f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ pages `content/foo/_index.md`, `content/foo/bar.md`, and
 page `content/_index.md`.
 
 The page date is the publish date, if any; otherwise, it's the creation
-date.
+date. To change the date format displayed, set the site parameter
+`paigedateformat` to a Hugo date format.
 
 The home page body has the `stretch`, `center`, `greeting`, and `blurb`
 parameters from `content/_index.md`, if any; the page content, if any;
diff --git a/layouts/partials/paige-date.html b/layouts/partials/paige-date.html
index 2a366ac3..1dfffa47 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/paige-date.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/paige-date.html
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 {{ with .PublishDate }}
-<p class="text-center text-muted"><time datetime="{{ .Format `2006-01-02` }}">{{ .Format "January 2, 2006" }}</time></p>
+{{ $format := ":date_long" }}
+{{ with site.Params.paigedateformat }}
+{{ $format = . }}
+{{ end }}
+<p class="text-center text-muted"><time datetime="{{ .Format `2006-01-02` }}">{{ time.Format $format . }}</time></p>
 {{ end }}