Is it possible to group blog pages by relative date?

[pftnhr]

I like how the relative date looks in the blog layout and would like to use it in the blog-start layout as well.

There, however, I group the posts by day and output the date with htmlspecialchars($day). Unfortunately, I don't think I can use page->getDateRelative() at this point.

I am now looking for a simple work-around to display the relative date in the blog-start layout as well.

[pftnhr]

Here's the solution:

Create a variable from the group

<?php foreach ($collectionMonth->group("published", false, "Y-m-d") as $day=>$collectionDay):
    $relDay = $collectionDay[0]->getDateRelative("published");
?>

Then you can output it at your desired position within the group:

<time class="dt-published published postdate" datetime="<?php echo date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime($day)) ?>">
    <?php echo $relDay ?>
</time>