I have a csv, the format for the date follows all the guidelines yet it refuses to let me add it to any date type fields. I have 46 blog posts which i need to import and have their original publish dates.
I have checked all the help docs so am a little lost.
The ZD is for timezone so if you have set your site as GMT+1 (= UTC+1) for ex, youāll finish your date like this :
2017-11-08T13:00+01:00
Wjhat happens is Webfow is going to ingest your date and convert it to UTC. Then it will convert the UTC stored date into your site date, using your timezone setting. Then in the Designer, in the CMS database and on publish, it will display the computed date in the american AM/PM format.
Why is it showing august on the block but November (correct) in sidepanel? If i go into the article it shows correctly nov 22nd but randomly august here
Both pull data from same place but either way, its showing one thing on sidepanel and diff in editor/live on site
Hi,
Thanks for the info on the appropriate Date format M-D-Y (not so natural for non-american users)
Iāve seen something quite weird happen when wanting to import my CSV data :
Webflow seems to remove a day to all datesā¦ which is quite surprisingā¦
Any idea why ?
If itās a timestamp thing, I unfortunately canāt provide the UTC time for publishing dateā¦ which means Iāll probably have to accept the fact that my 799 article publishing dates will be 1 day wrong
If you have any suggestions Iāll be glad to try them out
I havenāt tested this lately, but make sure your site settings are for the correct timezone you want, it will very likely affect the import, particularly if your date data does not specify a timezone.
In some of the posts Iām reading above, Iād assume the siteās timezone was incorrect.
One other tip- even if Webflow allows you to import dates into its default 3 date fields, just donāt. Make your own date field instead. The published date field is often incorrectly misunderstood as ādate first publishedā, and itās not- itās ādate last publishedā which will totally confuse your blog.