You should be able to use a angular filter in the label, something like this

{{createDate | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z'}}

Edit: Or... maybe not. Some dates are returned as strings from the Umbraco APIs... then you would first have to convert the string to a JS-date and then format it... maybe could be done using momentjs..

Something like this

{{moment(createDate).format("MMM Do YY")}}

I’m not sure that this would work... and you might have to include momentsjs introt he backoffice using a package.manifest-file

Hi!

I just had a closer look at this since I created my example from my phone without access to any computer to test with.

First of all, Nested Content does not store the create date, it just stores a minimal amount of data for the created item

This is from the umbraco cache-file in the app_data folder:

<nSTest><![CDATA[
[{ 
 "key":"76ca0088-6841-42f8-836d-5ff25afa5527",
 "name":"Item 1 Hallo",
 "ncContentTypeAlias":"test",
 "information":"Hallo"
 "eventDate": "2019-05-26 08:31:08"
  },
 {
  "key":"2f398518-fac2-4d8b-ad13-1c256765ed1d",
  "name":"Item 2 Test",
  "ncContentTypeAlias":"test",
   "information":"Mamma mia"
  "eventDate": "2019-05-23 08:31:08"
}]
]]>
</nSTest>

So it only stores some data about the documentype, a key and the generic properties, not a standard property like "create date". Any way. As you can see the eventDate (or any date) is stored as a string formatted like in your screenshot.

I tested the example code that I was proposing and as you say it does not render anything, and it does not throw any errors.

{{moment(eventDate).format('YYYY')}}

And since the date is just a string, the standard filter in AngularJS will not work either.

{{eventDate | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z'}}

I guess that if you really need to format the date you could try to create your own AngularJS filter that’s using MomentJs to first convert the string to a date and then formats the date from there. Maybe something like this:

https://gist.github.com/cmmartin/341b017194bac09ffa1a

You would then need to include this filter in a js-file that you reference in a package.manifest file to the the Umbraco backoffice to load your filter.

I do see that this is a complicated solution to a simple problem but there is no built in way to format the date as far as I know.

Hope you find your way around this!

I think Erik-Jan's answear at this page https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/100308-nested-content-template solves this problem in Umbraco 8

{{dateUntill| momentDateTimeZone:"YYYY-MM-DD"}}

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