Issue with future date formatting

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Hey all,I’m having an issue with date formatting for future dates. Our business is Australian, so we’re after the DD-MM-YYYY format.A bit of background: We have a birthday flow that includes a special offer, valid for 30 days. At the bottom of the email, I’ve included T&Cs which includes the expiration date of their offer. The standard format I’ve used (which works just fine) is: {% today '%m-%d-%Y' as today %} {{ today|days_later:30 }}However, as soon as I try to introduce formatting to have the date show as DD-MM-YYYY all I see is a blank space in my test sends. Below are a few different variations I’ve tried, all with no luck. Does anyone know if it’s possible change the formatting so it makes sense to our customer base? {% today '%m-%d-%Y' as today %} {{ today|days_later:30|date:'%d-%m-%Y' }}{% today '%m-%d-%Y' as today %} {{ today|days_later:30|date:'d-m-Y' }}{% today '%m-%d-%Y' as today %} {{ today|days_later:30|format_date_string|date:'d-m-Y' }}Appreciate any support!Cheers,Samantha

Christiannoerbjerg · Answer

Hi ​@samanthac,Thank you for posting in the community - I’ll try to help you as best as i can.A thing you could try is to format the date inside the today tag itself, since days_later will preserve whatever format you set there. You could trythis:{% today '%d-%m-%Y' as today %}{{ today|days_later:30 }}That should output something like 15-05-2026 for an offer generated today.The reason your original '%m-%d-%Y' version worked is that days_later was just doing string math on the format you gave it. Change the format at the source and the 30-days-later output follows the same pattern.Let me know, if it works :-)Cheers

Issue with future date formatting

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