Create a template that defined a date property which gets auto-populated to “today’s” date when a new note is created: date = {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
Create a new Daily Note
While in Source view, the date value’s Month component is correctly 10 for October.
However, when you turn off Source view, the date component has the Month value 00 not 10 for October.
Flipping back and forth between Source view and not shows the Month appear and zero out, depending on the Source View selection.
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Yes, the behavior is identical when in Restricted mode and default theme.
Expected result
The Month should always have 10 for both Source view enabled and disabled
Actual result
As it is currently October, this should show 10, but outside Source View this becomes 00.
The data actually seems to be ok. So this seems a display issue with the Date picker widget.
Environment
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Apologies for the delay. I have been able to review more closely and I think it may be triggered by a date not having any time information. However, when the date is set via a Date Picker widget saving with greater granularity the moth begins to display correctly again.
Give me some time to look at this more deeply. This is for my work system, and I am in the midst of something atm. Give my a week or so, and I will get back more more details and a screen recording for you.
It’s not specific to particular note. Though the dates property on which I see the behavior are of Date type. The value of the property being set through the Daily Note template using a YYYY-MM-DD format for it’s value - lacking time entirely.
I will test the hypothesis that including the time suffix in my template might avert the issue entirely….
It does appear purely display, as the dat behind it still has the original value, just sans time information on the date stamp.
I’m also curious if i look at backing MD, whether it has the time included, but just not shown, after you change the date value through a date widget.
I’m not manually defining the type in the UI. It come from the property in the template.
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date: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
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The docs I see suggesting this construct do not qualify the type of the property it’s creating. And perhaps that is the problem that I am running into. Not understanding. I see {{date}} and {{time}}which would seem like parts of a larger datetime
