revealjs: format of date entry on title page

[mtthsdzwn]

I am making a revealjs presentation. I wrote the date entry in the YAML as day month year (eg 10 November 2022). But on the title page, the date is formatted as 11/10/22. How do I change that format to 10 November 2022?

[dragonstyle]

Quarto supports formatting the date - you can control the format using date-format- more about that here:

https://quarto.org/docs/reference/dates.html

[pstoyanov]

While I don't see it explicitly mentioned in the docs -- apparently you can provide any text string as "date format". If it does not match the date formats, it gets printed as-is. In my case -- supplying date-format: 2022/2023 does the job to show academic year. Note that you still need some value for date, otherwise it is not "formatted".

Thanks for the useful tool!

[elcansaito]

I have the issue in another way. I want to use the R system date to include it in the YAML , but it doesn´t work.
For example.

---

title: "Test date"
author: JIS
date: "Last compiled on r format(Sys.time(), '%d %B, %Y')"
title-slide-attributes:
data-background-image: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elcansaito/images/main/Background.png"
#data-background-opacity: "0.5"
format:
revealjs:
self-contained: true
slide-number: true
width: 1600
height: 900
css: ["theme.css"]
theme: simple
editor: source
execute:
echo: true
editor_options:
chunk_output_type: inline

---

This doesn´t work even though I change it as date: "r format(Sys.Date(), '%Y-%b-%d')".

The only way to work is if I use something like this.

date: 2023/10/11
date-format: "YYYY/MMMM/DD"

However, I´d like R to run it for me every time. Any solution?
THANKS A MILLION

[mcanouil]

Please open a new discussion and format properly your example by enclosing it in a code block with more backticks (four).

[elcansaito]

Thanks mcanouil for the feedback. I created a new one using the backticks.