date now evaluates to "now"

[ghost]

Describe the bug

date now prints out a literal "now" value instead of the current date.

How to reproduce

1. date now

Expected behavior

I expect it to print the full date.

Screenshots

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Configuration

key	value
version	0.59.1
branch	main
short_commit	88d7b50
commit_hash	88d7b50
commit_date	2022-03-02 12:52:24 +00:00
build_os	macos-x86_64
rust_version	rustc 1.59.0 (9d1b2106e 2022-02-23)
rust_channel	stable-x86_64-apple-darwin
cargo_version	cargo 1.59.0 (49d8809dc 2022-02-10)
pkg_version	0.59.1
build_time	2022-03-02 13:00:29 -05:00
build_rust_channel	release
features	dataframe, default, trash, which, zip
installed_plugins

Additional context

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[ghost]

Might relate to changes in #4661.

[jmoore34]

This happens because autoview for DateTime gives the same output as date humanize. Perhaps this could be changed or made customizable (#3735).

Edit: er, it seems autoview was removed in e-q

As a workaround, you can do date now | date format or simply date format.

[stormasm]

I have seen this as well, it has been "broken" now for "awhile", not exactly sure how long....

[sophiajt]

yeah, we could make it output the RFC3339 format if used as a value by itself maybe? I like the human format for tables like ls but as a single value I agree it can be confusing that the thing you're looking at is actually a date

[jmoore34]

Perhaps it could display both, e.g. Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:42:37 -0600 (now).

I was also thinking it might be cool to be able to provide a block in the config that determines how it displays, that way the user could also tweak the locale-specific parts and add colors and such.

Can $config values be set to blocks or is that just environmental variables?

[ghost]

This happens because autoview for DateTime gives the same output as date humanize. Perhaps this could be changed or made customizable (#3735).

swell! Thanks for the explanation and workaround @jmoore34!

I am not blocked on a fix or anything too.
Just wanted to do my OSS part to make visible so others can see we are aware and jamming on a solution.

[rgwood]

date now is used as an example in the Nu Book introduction so that might need to be updated when this issue is resolved.