Update announcements date format

Thanks for progressing this. I'm sure it needs tests :)

I think the ideal for announcements would be j F Y (this is the format on d.o) which is already Olivero Medium, but we can't use it because Olivero won't necessarily be always installed.

We could create 'Default medium date only' instead but this would be slightly different from 'Default medium' which uses j M Y which seems a bit confusing. But this could replace Olivero Medium? A can of worms as usual!

Creating a new format just for this one specific place is a bit weird. When you install Drupal on standard profile, 12 formats are already created. If the time is a problem, cannot we use here the existing html_date format instead and then maybe just change its date representation in Drupal CMS to j F Y?

I do agree there are already a lot of formats. But it's not really a Drupal CMS issue, it's just that's how it surfaced. We added a new feature to core for announcements and we don't have an appropriate date format for it, outside of Olivero.

Of course, there are ways we can override it in Drupal CMS. But I think in this case, what's best for Drupal CMS is best for core. I don't feel that strongly about it either way though.

Re changing html_date in Drupal CMS, core's html_date is Y-m-d, which is to be used for HTML output, eg. datetime attributes and input elements for date input. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Date_and_time_formats, so I don't think changing that to something user facing is a good idea, browsers may not understand the updated format where it is actually used in the HTML source as intended.

In general we should stay away from messing with the html_... date formats, they are spec defined :)

So that leaves us with the long, medium and short date format in core, and all of them contain the time. I agree a date format in core for date only (without time) would be good.

Yes, just the date would be fine, like "7 August 2024" would be perfect.

I agree a date format in core for date only (without time) would be good.

Yes, these additions would be nice:

Another thing that could be improved, was some more news. The last of the ten items is almost two years old ... so I created 🌱 Post more frequently to the Announcement Feed Active .

Closing in favor of 📌 Add date formats without time Active , which adds 3 consistent new date formats for short, medium, long (date-only).

I do think this issue is still relevant for resolving this part of the issue: "... and start using in announcements feed", so maybe it should be reopened ("Postponed"?), and an MR made for date format in the announcement feed, when the shorter date format is ready?

@ressa It's just the same effort adding one than three. And the change on announcements is a 1-line change in a template that we can fit on the other one, and is already approved by UX Lead and Product Manager, so shouldn't add any overhead.

@penyaskito Thanks, that sounds good, and I have updated the MR in the other issue, adding the new short date format in the announcement feed template.

And I just now realize that there actually already was an MR in this issue created by you, when I created the new issue about adding three new date formats ... I am really sorry, and feel bad now. I truly didn't intend to take over the task. I don't know how, but I totally missed it.

penyaskito → closed merge request !10353