Blog posts use Date type pubDate

website/src/components/BlogFeed.astro

@@ -12,29 +12,18 @@ const { headingLevel = 2, hideAuthor = false } = Astro.props;
 const posts = (await getCollection('blog')).filter((post) => !post.data.hidden);
 
 const distinctYears: number[] = posts
-	.map(post => post.data.pubDate.year)
+	.map(post => post.data.pubDate.getFullYear())
 	.reduce<number[]>((acc, curr) => acc.includes(curr) ? acc : [...acc, curr], [])
 	.sort((a, b) => b - a);
 
 function matchesYear(year: number) {
-	return (post: CollectionEntry<'blog'>) => post.data.pubDate.year === year;
+	return (post: CollectionEntry<'blog'>) => post.data.pubDate.getFullYear() === year;
 }
 
 function sortByPubDateDescending(post1: CollectionEntry<'blog'>, post2: CollectionEntry<'blog'>) {
-	const year1 = post1.data.pubDate.year;
-	const year2 = post2.data.pubDate.year;
-	const month1 = post1.data.pubDate.month;
-	const month2 = post2.data.pubDate.month;
-	const day1 = post1.data.pubDate.day;
-	const day2 = post2.data.pubDate.day;
-
-	if (year1 !== year2) {
-		return year2 - year1;
-	} else if (month1 !== month2) {
-		return month2 - month1;
-	} else {
-		return day2 - day1;
-	}
+	const date1 = post1.data.pubDate.getMilliseconds();
+	const date2 = post2.data.pubDate.getMilliseconds();
+	return date2 - date1;
 }
 
 const headingElem = `h${headingLevel}`;

website/src/content/blog/2024/01/14/sapiens_on_religion.md

@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ title: Harari’s Sapiens on Religion
 description: >-
     In which I discuss why I think Harari’s characterisation of religion
     is inadequate because it’s too materialistic.
-pubDate:
-    year: 2024
-    month: 01
-    day: 14
+pubDate: 2024-01-14
 ---
 
 I’ve been slowly re-reading Yuval Noah Harari’s 2014 classic,

website/src/content/blog/2024/01/29/euhwc_toast_to_the_lasses_2024.md

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ description: >-
     Ullapool last weekend, I had the last privilege of giving the Toast to
     the Lassies. Particularly for the benefit of those who weren’t there,
     here it is in full!
-pubDate:
-    year: 2024
-    month: 01
-    day: 29
+pubDate: 2024-01-29
 ---
 
 Had Burns, instead of his sweet bonnie Jean,<br>

website/src/content/blog/2024/03/30/easter.md

@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ description: >-
     Based on a talk given to my colleagues at
     <a href="https://www.scottlogic.co.uk">Scott Logic</a> for Maundy
     Thursday, 2024.
-pubDate:
-    year: 2024
-    month: 03
-    day: 30
+pubDate: 2024-03-30
 ---
 
 As you might have noticed, it is Easter this week! So I'd like to take five or

website/src/content/blog/2024/04/11/who_consecrates_the_temple.md

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Who consecrates the tabernacle? (Ex 29)
 description: A quick, cursory and possibly completely rubbish observation I've made on Exodus 29.
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 04
-  day: 11
+pubDate: 2024-04-11
 ---
 
 I've been reading Exodus recently, and the ending of Chapter 29 stuck out to me.

website/src/content/blog/2024/04/14/god_is_not_great.md

@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ title: God Is Not Great, initial thoughts
 description: >-
   My spark notes on Hitchen's classic 2007 polemic against religion, plus some
   initial thoughts on how I want to respond to it.
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 04
-  day: 14
+pubDate: 2024-04-14
 ---
 
 These are my 'spark notes' on _God Is Not Great_, Christopher Hitchen's classic

website/src/content/blog/2024/05/02/no_more_youtube.md

@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@
 title: How I made YouTube work for me
 description: >-
   I just learned YouTube channels have an RSS feed. This is terrific news.
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 05
-  day: 02
+pubDate: 2024-05-02
 ---
 
 One of my bad habits in life is wandering through YouTube. I've always had

website/src/content/blog/2024/06/13/llms_do_not_understand_anything.md

@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@
 title: LLMs do not understand anything
 description: >-
   Save this for the next time someone tells you that LLMs 'understand' things.
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 06
-  day: 13
+pubDate: 2024-06-13
 ---
 
 LLMs do not understand what they are talking about. They just don't. It's not

website/src/content/blog/2024/07/08/doctor_who_gayness_church.md

@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ title: Doctor Who, Gayness, and the Church
 description: >-
   Series 14 of Doctor Who has a schizophrenic relationship with Christianity.
   It’s also gay. I think there might be a connection.
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 07
-  day: 8
+pubDate: 2024-07-08
 ---
 
 I’ve recently finished the most recent series of Doctor Who, series fourteen (or

website/src/content/config.ts

@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
 import { defineCollection, z } from 'astro:content';
 
-const dateSchema = z.object({
-	year: z.number(),
-	month: z.number(),
-	day: z.number(),
-});
-
 const blog = defineCollection({
 	type: 'content',
 	schema: z.object({
 		title: z.string(),
 		hidden: z.optional(z.boolean()),
 		description: z.string(),
-		pubDate: dateSchema,
-		updatedDate: z.optional(dateSchema),
+		pubDate: z.date(),
+		updatedDate: z.optional(z.date()),
 	}),
 });
 

website/src/layouts/BlogPost.astro

@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ type Props = CollectionEntry<'blog'>['data'];
 const { title, description, pubDate, updatedDate } = Astro.props;
 
 const canonicalUrl = new URL(Astro.url.pathname, Astro.site);
-
-const pubDateStr = `${pubDate.year}-${pubDate.month}-${pubDate.day}`;
-const updatedDateStr = updatedDate ?
-	`${updatedDate.year}-${updatedDate.month}-${updatedDate.day}`
-	: pubDateStr;
 ---
 
 <html lang="en">
@@ -32,9 +27,9 @@ const updatedDateStr = updatedDate ?
 				</span>
 				{ updatedDate
 					? (
-						<span>Updated: <FormattedDate date={updatedDateStr} className="dt-updated"/>.</span>
-						<span>Originally published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/>.</span>
-					) : <span>Published: <FormattedDate date={pubDateStr} className="dt-published"/>.</span>
+						<span>Updated: <FormattedDate date={updatedDate} className="dt-updated"/>.</span>
+						<span>Originally published: <FormattedDate date={pubDate} className="dt-published"/>.</span>
+					) : <span>Published: <FormattedDate date={pubDate} className="dt-published"/>.</span>
 				}
 				<span hidden><a class="u-url uid" href={canonicalUrl}>Permalink</a></span>
 	  		</aside>

website/src/pages/blog/rss.xml.ts

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export async function GET(context: APIContext) {
 		  link: `/blog/${post.slug}`,
 			title: post.data.title,
 	    content: mdParser.render(post.body),
-	    pubDate: new Date(`${post.data.pubDate.year}-${post.data.pubDate.month}-${post.data.pubDate.day}`),
+	    pubDate: post.data.pubDate,
 	    description: post.data.description,
 	    author: 'Joe Carstairs',
 

website/src/src/content/blog/2024/04/10/tracking_pixels.md

@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: Tracking pixels
 description: Concerning a notice in the privacy policy of an HR app
-pubDate:
-  year: 2024
-  month: 04
-  day: 10
+pubDate: 2024-04-10
 ---
 
 I recently made the mistake of reading the privacy policy of the HR app my