From 9e6d38adc9df0d8713d86a458337cb13e7a24f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Boyd <will@codersblock.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:21:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Advanced settings for date and time formatting

---
 src/parser.js   | 11 ++++++++++-
 src/settings.js |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/parser.js b/src/parser.js
index 5c87fee..9afecf7 100644
--- a/src/parser.js
+++ b/src/parser.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ const luxon = require('luxon');
 const xml2js = require('xml2js');
 
 const shared = require('./shared');
+const settings = require('./settings');
 const translator = require('./translator');
 
 async function parseFilePromise(config) {
@@ -82,7 +83,15 @@ function getPostTitle(post) {
 }
 
 function getPostDate(post) {
-	return luxon.DateTime.fromRFC2822(post.pubDate[0], { zone: 'utc' }).toISO();
+	const dateTime = luxon.DateTime.fromRFC2822(post.pubDate[0], { zone: 'utc' });
+
+	if (settings.custom_date_formatting) {
+		return dateTime.toFormat(settings.custom_date_formatting);
+	} else if (settings.include_time_with_date) {
+		return dateTime.toISO();
+	} else {
+		return dateTime.toISODate();
+	}
 }
 
 function getCategories(post) {
diff --git a/src/settings.js b/src/settings.js
index 288830c..cad784b 100644
--- a/src/settings.js
+++ b/src/settings.js
@@ -5,3 +5,12 @@ exports.image_file_request_delay = 500;
 // time in ms to wait between saving Markdown files
 // increase this if your file system becomes overloaded
 exports.markdown_file_write_delay = 25;
+
+// enable this to include time with post dates
+// for example, "2020-12-25" would become "2020-12-25T11:20:35.000Z"
+exports.include_time_with_date = false;
+
+// override post date formatting with a custom formatting string (for example: 'yyyy LLL dd')
+// tokens are documented here: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/formatting.html#table-of-tokens
+// if set, this takes precedence over include_time_with_date
+exports.custom_date_formatting = '';