Example of showDateUpdated: true in frontmatter?

[jamesbraza]

Is there an example of showDateUpdated: true in frontmatter somewhere?

I am turning it on, but don't see anything changing, so I am not sure what to expect.

FYI, my dateFormat = "2006-01" in languages.en.toml.

[aakashnand]

@jamesbraza did you find the answer for this?

[jamesbraza]

No I did not sadly. Looks like the example site has it like so:

# config/_default/params.toml

[article]
showDateUpdated = false

Can you check if it changes anything for you? It may be worth making a formal bug report for this

[aakashnand]

When I added following in config.toml it worked

[frontmatter]
lastmod = ["lastmod" ,':fileModTime', ":git", "date"]

Ref: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/gitinfo-fails-if-there-is-an-umlaut-in-the-folder-path/32746/5

[ideenwelt]

@jamesbraza I had the same issue today and came across your post. If you (after almost a year) still have the problem or others are looking for it, here is my solution.

If you put “showDateUpdated=true” in the params.toml, you won't see anything yet.
You have to enter the command “lastmod: ‘2025-01-24’” in the respective article (content - posts --> e.g. myarticlename.md) in the frontmatters.

# Common-Defined params
date: "2024-12-11"
lastmod: "2025-01-24"
title: "my article"

Then you always have to adjust the date manually when you edit or update the article.
In the article preview and in the article you will then see the updated date in addition to the original date.
I have not currently found an automatic update of the date.