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dateFormat	Converts the textual representation of the `datetime` into the specified format.	https://golang.org/pkg/time/	2017-02-01	2017-02-01	2017-02-01	functions	docs parent functions	dates time strings	dateFormat LAYOUT INPUT			Format now Unix time	false

dateFormat converts a timestamp string INPUT into the format specified by the LAYOUT string.

{{ dateFormat "Monday, Jan 2, 2006" "2015-01-21" }} → "Wednesday, Jan 21, 2015"

{{% warning %}} As of v0.19 of Hugo, the dateFormat function is not supported as part of Hugo's multilingual feature. {{% /warning %}}

See Go’s Layout String to learn about how the LAYOUT string has to be formatted. There are also some useful examples.

See the time function to convert a timestamp string to a Go time.Time type value.