Blog posts use Date type pubDate

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()),
 	}),
 });