From 5eb24fde8b0bb48a617de31252fc82988f136058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivy Turner <ivy@ivy.rs>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:35:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] unfixing date for now

---
 src/components/util/Date.astro | 16 ++++++++++++----
 src/lib/date.ts                |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/util/Date.astro b/src/components/util/Date.astro
index e207be9..9e8592d 100644
--- a/src/components/util/Date.astro
+++ b/src/components/util/Date.astro
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 ---
-import { formattedDate, isoDate } from '~/lib/date';
 export interface Props {
-  date: Date;
+  date: string | Date;
   showTime?: boolean;
 }
-
 const { date, showTime = false } = Astro.props;
 
 if (!date) {
@@ -12,6 +10,16 @@ if (!date) {
   return null;
 }
 
+const dateObj = typeof date === "string" ? new globalThis.Date(date) : date;
+const options: Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions = { year: "numeric", month: "long", day: "numeric" };
+
+if (showTime) {
+  options.hour = "2-digit";
+  options.minute = "2-digit";
+}
+
+const formattedDate = dateObj.toLocaleString("en-GB", options);
+const isoDate = dateObj.toISOString();
 ---
 
-<time datetime={isoDate(date)}>{formattedDate(date, showTime)}</time>
+<time datetime={isoDate}>{formattedDate}</time>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/lib/date.ts b/src/lib/date.ts
index e75f0f8..2451380 100644
--- a/src/lib/date.ts
+++ b/src/lib/date.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
-function checkDate(date: Date | string): Date {
-  if (typeof date === Date)
-}
+// function checkDate(date: Date | string): Date {
+//   if (typeof date === Date)
+// }
 
 export function formattedDate(date: Date, showTime: boolean): string {
     const options: Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions = {