Remove the default date formatting

src/PublishModal.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { deriveDate, deriveSlug } from "./slug";
 export interface ModalResult {
   frontmatterPairs: Pair[];
   slug: string;
-  date: string;
+  date?: string;
   strategy: Strategy;
   commitMessage: string;
 }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export class PublishModal extends Modal {
     this.result = {
       frontmatterPairs: [],
       slug: deriveSlug({ title, filename }),
-      date: deriveDate({ frontmatterDate: frontmatter.date, now: new Date() }),
+      date: deriveDate({ frontmatterDate: frontmatter.date }),
       strategy: settings.defaultImageStrategy,
       commitMessage: settings.commitMessageTemplate.replace("{{title}}", title || filename),
     };
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ export class PublishModal extends Modal {
       t.setValue(this.result.slug).onChange((v) => (this.result.slug = v))
     );
     new Setting(contentEl).setName("Date").addText((t) =>
-      t.setValue(this.result.date).onChange((v) => (this.result.date = v))
-    );
+      t.setValue(this.result.date ?? "").onChange((v) => (this.result.date = v))
+    ).setDesc("The date to prepend to the filename. Useful for blog posts.");
+
     new Setting(contentEl).setName("Image strategy").addDropdown((d) =>
       d.addOption("flat-slug", "Flat, renamed to slug")
         .addOption("per-post-folder", "Per-post subfolder")