Any way I can shorten the length of this date without having to run date()?
If you just want YYYY-MM-DD you could do a substring from position 0 through 9.
Example in Python dateStr[:10]
I am working with django and using angularjs. I made a request which responded with an object containing the name, price and date this input was modified. 
My html has the following {{price_level.modified }} providing me with 2018-01-16T10:15:34.401839Z.
Here is the data that I am getting when I console.log the data 
created: "2017-06-02T05:01:17.803045Z"
fs_charge: 10
id: 595
locked: false
modified: "2018-02-06T07:36:21.517414Z"
moq: 30
moq_price: 60