Make {{system.date}} spell out full month

[Robb_Barrett]

Hi, simple request: it looks more professional on emails to spell out the full name of the month instead of just a 3 character abbreviation. This especially looks bad in Jun, when it looks like we forgot to add an e. 

Can this token have the full month name?

Thanks in advance,

Robb

[SanfordWhiteman]

VTL:

${date.long_date}

[Veronica_Holme4]

I would go further and ask that admins be allowed to set up a date format for date type fields in the admin and that format is perpetuated across Marketo. Anything Marketo does here will annoy people in different geographies where date formats differ.

[SanfordWhiteman]

It's sort of the opposite, though -- the locale format is person-specific, not instance-wide, as noted here:Localize Date Format in Token (Velocity)

[Veronica_Holme4]

Oh I get that - I just think I shouldn't have to resort to scripting to get basic functionality. The chances of me teaching every team member and client to script well is zero.

[SanfordWhiteman]

But if you create a single reusable token, they don't have to learn VTL.

[Caroline_Graha1]

Sanford Whiteman can you please elaborate on your answer? Trying to implement this but I don't know what VTL is. Thanks!

[SanfordWhiteman]

VTL is Velocity Template Language: the language used to write Velocity/Email Script tokens, which is a Java dialect.

You can create a functioning Email Script token with just the one line of code above, although it will not be accurate to the timezone level unless you extend it a bit. See https://nation.marketo.com/message/191858-re-localize-date-format-in-token-velocity#comment-191858  and elsewhere.