# Inserting Date/Time in "About Me"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/inserting-date-time-in-about-me/137528>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inserting-date-time-in-about-me/137528 "2020-01-02T03:51:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![j.jaffeux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j.jaffeux/32/60297_2.png) [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inserting-date-time-in-about-me/137528/5 "2020-01-08T09:17:38Z")

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So I can make it work quite easily:

 ![Screenshot 2020-01-08 at 10.12.20](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/3/5366932099561497205b24e4e1014915286bf612.png)

But it has a price that I don’t think we are willing to pay:

- currently in bio we render “bio\_excerpt” and not just “bio\_cooked”, which could mean the date might be truncated and also that we are removing HTML:

```plaintext
[1] pry(main)> PrettyText.excerpt("<b>Foo</b>", 5)
=> "Foo"

```

- Also we are rendering this as text and using `{{text-overflow}}` component

So to make it work without going crazy and building some kind of postCooked hook this is not possible without changing:

```plaintext
<div class='bio'>{{text-overflow class="overflow" text=user.bio_excerpt}}</div>

```

to

```plaintext
<div class='bio'>{{{user.bio_cooked}}}</div>

```

Which I don’t think we want to do for such a specific edge case, it basically means we are rendering HTML from a user input. Your call, let me know if you want to dig this more or explore other solutions.

Might be safer to just remove toolbar button from about composer ?

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