mkdocs-material/docs/extensions/revision_date.md

Revision date

mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin is an extension that enables adding a revision date to a markdown file. As the name says, it takes this revision date from GIT.

Installation

Install the plugin using pip:

pip install mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin

And add the following lines to your mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
  - git-revision-date-localized

Usage

Material for MkDocs will add the revision date to the bottom of every markdown page, for example:

Last updated: 9 December 2019

To change the language, set the theme language, see Getting started - Language.

To change the date format, set the type parameter to one of date, datetime, iso_date, iso_datetime or timeago. Default is date. Example outputs:

28 November, 2019 # type: date
28 November, 2019 13:57:28 # type: datetime
2019-11-28 # type: iso_date
2019-11-28 13:57:26 # type: iso_datetime
20 hours ago # type: timeago

Example setting:

# mkdocs.yml
plugins:
  - git-revision-date-localized:
    type: timeago