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When I want to put a date in a document like a blog post from vim I use !!date
from insert mode. Note that entering !! from normal mode puts you in command
mode with :.! filled out. This runs a shell command, i.e. date for this
example.
It outputs the following
Fri Jan 31 08:46:11 PM CST 2025
You can also pass in a date such as tommorrow by pasdding in the -d date -d tomorrow.
It outputs the following
Sat Feb 1 08:53:20 PM CST 2025
codeium just taught me this one with autocomplete
:put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
This outputs the following
2025-01-31
What I like about the :put =strftime( method is that you can add a format,
but that is a lot more for me to remember than !!date
A few weeks later #
I'm going through a bunch of blog posts and dont want my date formats to change
to the Wed Feb format so I broke down and made these keybindings. I think I'm
still going to be using .!date a lot, but these keybindings will be nice for
editing blog post frontmatter.
set("n", "<leader>dd", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true }) set("n", "<leader>dt", "<cmd>put =strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')<cr>", { noremap = true, silent = true })
dd 2025-02-12 dt 2025-02-12 12:53:47 - :.!date Wed Feb 12 12:53:47 PM CST 2025