In Shortlist the {exp:shortlist:view} tag extends the channel->entries() method for it's parsing needs. This works and allows for full custom tag parsing without much extra effort, but runs into issues when formatting extra date variables.
In the view loop we provide an extra variable {entry_real_date} which is the actual date for the entry (vs. the date it was added to a list). The parser never see's our custom variable as a date variable, so ignores any format param.
ie :
{entry_real_date format="%n %Y"}
is never parsed.
In a normal situation where we're applying our own tag parsing, we'd be able do something like :
$tagdata = ee()->TMPL->parse_date_variables($tagdata, $dates);
but with in the channel->entries() usage we can't get access to the raw parsing to do this. The parser does look for custom date variables, but only within the context of custom fields, so our dynamically attached variable is never handled.
From digging I can find no way to mark our custom variable as a date variable to enable that format parsing.
Has anyone run into this and handled it?
This is on EE2.8+
