[FR] Custom Date Format

[FeiyouG]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I think it will be nice to allow the users to specify date format. For example, I prefer to have timestamp in this format: 20220217.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Or at least provide template for {{month}}, {{dayOfMonth}} so we can customize the date format ourselves.

[lambtho12]

I think it is not that straightforward...

Both ideas need to be implemented I beleive, simply adding {{month}} will only output the current month. But then what happen when you want to template other dates than the current one?

So we should have a config for the datetime_format (default would be YYYY-mm-dd)
AND we could have templates to get the current day {{now_day}}, month {{now_month}} or year {{now_year}} alone.

[sebastianbock17]

I definitely would like to find a way for setting up custom templates, especially quarter and monthly notes, I like your suggestions @lambtho12!

[lambtho12]

I think that it would be nice to completely separate the template stuff in a separate file (already discussed here). This might facilitate PRs and community improvements. People have lots of interesting ideas, often quite simple to implement (like {{now_month}}, {{last_month}}, {{next_month}}, {{timezone}}).

In my opinion when it comes to templates and snippets like that, the more we have, the better. We could also have stuff not directly related to time, such as {{filename}}, {{pwd}}, {{dir}}, {{host}}, {{user}}, {{some git stuff?}}...

[lambtho12]

Closing this as it is now possible to use {{year}}{{month}}{{day}} in the templates. So by combining all these as you wish, any date format should be possible.