Hardcoded date formats

[alexandrevicenzi]

Summary

Date format is hard coded to "%B %-d, %Y" in many places.

Motivation

This date format does not goes well in Portuguese.

PT-BR uses DD/MM/YYYY format, or the long version 15 de Maio de 2020, as i18n does not work it shows as May 15, 2020.

Even with some hacks to translate May to Maio it would look like Maio 15, 2020, this does not make much sense in PT-BR.

It would be nice to have a settings called date_format or something like where I could set all dates to the appropriate format in my language.

Drawbacks

I need to hack the theme to change to "%d/%m/%Y" in multiple places.

[mmistakes]

Closed as this is a duplicate of #815... see my response there.

As far as localizing the date. Ideally Jekyll core would support it instead of having to resort to a bunch of Liquid code. Something like this was proposed but appears to have gone stale jekyll/jekyll#5478

[alexandrevicenzi]

Upstream issue was closed, that's never going to be implemented.