date formatting according to locale

[mariashinoto]

Dates seem to be formatted according to the US standards (MM dd, YYYY) regardless the locale of the site of OS.

It is easier to understand the date if formatted according to the language the article is written in, or even better, so set the date format independent of the locale (like YYYY-MM-DD).

[cderv]

Very sorry for late feedback on this.

The formatting of the published date field in the Distill article header like here

is a feature of underlying Distill.js feature itself, which power distill R 📦

distill/inst/www/distill/template.v2.js

Lines 25 to 30 in d77ee48

	<div>
	<h3>Published</h3>
	${e.publishedDate?`
	<p>${e.publishedMonth} ${e.publishedDay}, ${e.publishedYear}</p> `:`
	<p><em>Not published yet.</em></p>`}
	</div>

It is not an easy thing to add a feature too this, but maybe with some JS it can be possible. it would require some work.

And on a more general note, a new project has been announced called Quarto (https://quarto.org/). We are focusing our effort for new feature into this new tool which extends the R Markdown ecosystem.
Especially regarding distill, most the features offered by Distill.js (like the styling, the layouts, ...) have been redone without the JS library itself.
As an example, the date formatting is much more improved there already : https://quarto.org/docs/reference/dates.html
as the constraint of the JS lib was not there.

Just sharing in case you did not know about it. It is fully compatible with R Markdown ecosystem (R chunks, knitr and all).

I'll mark this as a feature request for future consideration as it is not straightforward. If anyone is interest to try improve their JS skills to help with that, feel free to share your results here! thanks you