formatDate formats timezone incorrectly about handlebars-helpers HOT 12 CLOSED

Another option is to fix the one line from the source. :) I'd still prefer to run with a live time formatting library rather than something that's MIA.

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I trust your judgement, do you recommend moment.js over other libs? Also, we can implement a new helper like {{time ""}} or {{moment ""}} and just deprecate the formatDate helper and related code until we feel pretty good about removing it. What do you think? Any interest in implementing the change?

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I think {{moment}} would be better as then people might realize that they can use moment.js documentation http://momentjs.com/ to see what's possible.

One thing tho, I'm not at ease with coffeescript. Could I do it in javascript and then we could see if we'll convert it to coffeescript with some tool or at all?

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Absolutely, javascript is great, the coffeescript might get thrown out anyway - I don't like it either, so no worries at all.

I guess it's an overstatement to say I don't like it. In fact, I think coffeescript is great for configuration, like as an alternative to YAML. But besides that, I don't like it. I think it would be really interesting to see "coffee front matter", because it would allow configuration that is very similar to YAML, but it would be far more powerful

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btw, thought you might be interested in this: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/sublime-markdown-extended. The images on the readme are actually from the Issues on that repo. I copied each image into an issue, then I copied the generated markdown link into the readme lol. Pretty interesting that it works!

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Something like?

https://github.com/Arkkimaagi/assemble-handlebars-momentjs

It does not have to be in it's own repository, but I decided to try building one quickly.

Thanks, I'll take a look at sublime-markdown-extended, is it in package manager?

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Btw, I feel almost ashamed how simple it was to build the script, it took way longer to document what one can do with it.

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Lol, yeah the documentation seems to always take longer. It's not structured and doesn't follow a pattern like code, and you have to think about what other people might need to know.

That's a great helper, thanks I will add a link to it in the docs. I think "assemble-helpers-momentjs" would probably make more sense. Technically the code could be generalized more later so that it could be used as either a handlebars helper, lodash mixin or as a filter with a different template language. Of course none of this matters unless you actually need something other than handlebars, so I'm just thinking out loud.

A few thoughts (I'm happy to create pull requests for some of these if you want):

• Make sure you add a "main" property to the package.json with the path to the helper. Consider adding a bower.json for easy downloading and consumption of the helper.
• consider putting the helper in the root of the project, and just add a test folder to demonstrate the helper. This will make it easy to consume via a method other than npm. Especially with bower.
• Preferably name the helper something like "helper-momentjs.js". I will document this, but all helpers have been following the pattern "helper-*.js" so that they can easily be included via simple minimatch patterns.

Now with a convention for helpers it will be fast and easy to create them going forward... Hmmm, I'm going to create a grunt init package for this today. That will be nice, so everything I mentioned above will be included.

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I'll reformat the thing to work nicely, and yes a sample project on how to add this would be nice to get it rolling.

I'm ok for this code to be part of the helper-lib if you wish. I just did it as a separate repo to see if I could. :)

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I just added a page to the docs here: http://assemble.io/docs/Custom-Helpers.html

I'll clean it up over time, I'm adding an init project now, and an example repo.

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Also see this issue (created with you in mind ;-) #32

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Done https://github.com/jonschlinkert/grunt-init-assemble-helper

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