Style event date to match blog and news teaser

There is no MR open here and so I can't merge it, since I don't have permissions to do that. :(

I'd suggest using the same date format across the site for consistency too as well as changing the styling. So the "after" should be the following for the three blocks:

Mon, 6 Jan 2025 // Mon, 24 Mar - Thu, 27 Mar 2025 // Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Not a mix of shortened and full month name, and day sometimes before, sometimes after the month.

The date format is updated in a separate issue.

Thanks.

This makes sense. Blog and News use the node's date and are styled from .node_meta

We should encourage any future content types that need a date field use field_event__date

Marking as RTBC

Merged into 1.x. Thanks!

Not sure I agree with this:

We should encourage any future content types that need a date field use field_event__date

Field naming is important, so using an "event" date for anything other than an event content type is counter to best practice (code and config readability being top of the list for me on that one).
We can certainly encourage similar date field configuration, but for new fields.

Agree with @dunx, that if we want to reuse this, field_date seems like a better and more universal alternative.

I don't think it's true that the event date field would be reused anywhere you wanted a date, for one thing it's a date range (using Smart date), which is somewhat specific to events. Most instances of a date field would be simple date fields, not a range, right?

Our naming strategy was that if a field was shared among the existing content types, it was named generically. If not, then it wasn't. We also observed that marketers don't care that much about field names! And those who do care about it can probably come up with their own naming conventions.

Yes... but we should be implementing best practice, so those marketing-types can follow our lead. Agree otherwise.

I thought I'd check out the date formats, beyond the actual styling, which I agree is fixed.

TLDR: Formats still not consistent on latest build. Perhaps we don't care, but it looks odd to me.

Steps to reproduce:

git clone https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms.git
cd drupal_cms
ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web --php-version=8.3
ddev start
ddev composer install 
ddev launch

• Complete initial installation.
• Create simple block view of "Latest" to include Blogs, News and Event content types (see screenshot).

• Use Layout Builder to add new Section to homepage.
• Add my "Latest" block view to that Section and save.

Date formats are still inconsistent.

I created the first piece of news content for the site. The date format for that matches the Blog format.

Oh I see, I thought you were saying they should be consist between the teaser and full view. I think it makes sense for the event to have more information. It is relevant what days of the week a conference occurs; it's not relevant what day of the week a news item was posted.

The format itself is consistent with day month year, but the event has more info because it's relevant there.

Fine by me and agree that an event requires more info to be displayed and a different format with shortened months is sensible.

My main point was with the rest of the date format inconsistencies, but these have been addressed, so thanks to whoever did that :)

• The "After" shot on #OP shows Mon, Mar 24 - Thu, Mar 27 2025
• My screenshot on #18 shows Sun, 23 Mar 2025, 2pm - Thu, 27 Mar 2025, 1:59pm

The styling itself has been fixed and date formats have also been addressed.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.