Date - Front Matter

How to manage date string into the page header

Last modified 2025-07-31

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Table of content
  1. Remove date display
  2. Custom date
  3. git Last Modified date

Remove date display

Just set date: false. Here is A front matter with date disabled:

date: false

Example with date removed

Custom date

Enter Eleventy support date https://www.11ty.dev/docs/dates/, for example:

date: 2016-01-01

Example with custom date

git Last Modified date

It may occurs that Eleventy date setting date: git Last Modified fails on production builds. To force the display of the truly git Last Modified date, just set date: 1111-11-11. This special date value forces the display of the truly git Last Modified date by seeking through git history. Thus, it may increases significantly build duration proportionally with the amount of pages this parameter is set.

This following page front matter date will seek file git history to display the truly git Last Modified date.

date: 1111-11-11