can't build, invalid date

[pbielefeldt]

Hi all!

Thanks for providing this excellent theme! Unfortunately, after updating to the latest version (9ae90ed), I can no longer build the page. When running bundle exec jekyll build, I get

      Generating... 
             Error: could not read file …/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb: Invalid date '<%= Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z') %>': Document 'vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb' does not have a valid date in the YAML front matter.
             ERROR: YOUR SITE COULD NOT BE BUILT:
                    ------------------------------------
                    Invalid date '<%= Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z') %>': Document 'vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/jekyll-3.9.2/lib/site_template/_posts/0000-00-00-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown.erb' does not have a valid date in the YAML front matter.

The file in question looks like this:

---
layout: post
title:  "Welcome to Jekyll!"
date:   <%= Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z') %>
categories: jekyll update
---
You’ll find this post in your `_posts` directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to
see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common
way is to run `jekyll serve`, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site
when a file is updated.
…

Line 4 looks weird to me.
However, it appears to be auto-generated from somewhere, and I can't figure out from where. Any help is appreciated!

I am on CentOS 7 (still), if that's relevant.

Best regards
p_bielefeldt

[murraco]

This a bit outdated, but I'm curious, did you get it to work?