For a book I want to publish in French, the date appears in the HTML in English:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7606540/168477573-db46feb5-47a3-4ff0-ae24-3ca7169330e1.png)

I realize this is not an easy fix, but a solution (that is working in PDF with LaTeX) is to pass the date string in YYYY-MM-DD format (a kind of internationally neutral) way? I've defined it like this in my _quarto.yml file:

```yaml
book:
  date: "2022-05-06"
```

On the PDF version of my book, it shows "as is" on the cover page:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7606540/168477965-fc47e368-433a-4eb0-bd70-402962fa6e77.png)

But on the web site, it's converted into an American date as shown above.

Perhaps adding a "title-block-date-format:" field to the `_language.yml` file would allow this to work with the most flexibility?
2022-05-15T14:27:48Z
fuhrmanator
closed
Date format on web page (HTML) doesn't follow the language settings
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/883