Why are timestamps returning the month instead of actual time?

[SergioCosta]

I've started having this issue recently as this was working properly last week.

{% assign today_date = 'now' | date: '%m-%d-%Y' %}

{% assign today_date_ts = today_date | date: '%s' | plus: 0 %}

today_date_ts should be the timestamp, which was fine a week ago or so

Right now date: '%s' is returning the month of the date, not a timestamp.

For 12-15-2022, for example,it returns 12

For 11-15-2022, it returns 11

And so on.

Any ideas?

[Litos]

Hi @SergioCosta,

Please change code:

{% assign today_date_ts = today_date | date: '%s' | plus: 0 %}

=>

{% assign today_date_ts = 'now' | date: '%d' | plus: 0 %}

Hope it helps!

[SergioCosta]

Thank you very much for pitching in but that gives me the day of the month for today, not the timestamp.

%s should give me the timestamp, yet it's returning the month. And this was working a week ago, which brings me to believe there was a bug induced in Shopify meanwhile.

[Litos]

Hi @SergioCosta,

You can try this:

{% assign today_date = 'now' | date: '%s' %}
{% assign today_date_ts = today_date | plus: 0 %}

Hope it helps!

[SergioCosta]

Thank you.

That direct conversion works with 'now' but not with string dates, unfortunately. I do find it odd that converting to a date and then to timestamp doesn't work though. Any idea why that may be?

An example:

{% assign i_date = settings.sale_begin_date | date: '%m-%d-%Y' %}
{% assign i_date_ts = i_date | date: '%s' | plus: 0 %}

I'm using the first line above to make sure date formatation is recognized.

But this doesn't work either. It always returns the month.

{% assign i_date_ts = settings.sale_begin_date | date: '%s' | plus: 0 %}

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[Litos · Accepted solution]

Hi @SergioCosta,

Please change code:

{% assign i_date = settings.sale_begin_date | date: '%m-%d-%Y' %}

=>

{% assign i_date = settings.sale_begin_date | date: 'format: 'default'' | date: '%s' %}

with the format of the date as 'Y-M-D', for example: '2022-12-16'

Hope it helps!

[SergioCosta]

Thank you, that worked. I guess there is no way of keeping the date as mm-dd-yyyy?

[Litos]

Hi @SergioCosta,

It's the default format by Shopify, I'm not sure there is another way to change this.

Hope it helps!