I have all the file names for my daily notes in YYYY-MM-DD-dddd format, such as 2023-02-26-Sunday.
Reading about Field Types on the Dataview help pages it seems that it would be better if I removed the days of the week from all the file names and used the ISO8601YYYY-MM-DD format instead.
Before I change the titles of and links in thousands of files, I would welcome any advice about if this is the best way to proceed or if any other formatting would be preferable.
Did you need to do that? I was just about to write a post on how dataview can pick up dates in various context, and let you use file.day to access the date, either from the file name itself, or potentially in some tricky cases from a specific date field within the file.
You posted another query related to the same subject (but with a different twist), so I posted some examples on how to utilise the file.day in that reply, so if someone in the future searches for this, they should also take a lot at the following: