From e97ec701f55edde6ddd27a1278865014ebb2ad86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Cushen <gcushen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:34:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add safe defaults for locales

---
 .../layouts/_partials/functions/get_event_dates.html      | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/blox-tailwind/layouts/_partials/functions/get_event_dates.html b/modules/blox-tailwind/layouts/_partials/functions/get_event_dates.html
index a33c88c3..eeb3ab26 100644
--- a/modules/blox-tailwind/layouts/_partials/functions/get_event_dates.html
+++ b/modules/blox-tailwind/layouts/_partials/functions/get_event_dates.html
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 {{/* Function to get event start and end dates/times. */}}
 {{ $t1 := time .Date }}{{/* Start datetime. */}}
-{{ $str := slice (time.Format site.Params.hugoblox.locale.date_format (time $t1)) }}{{/* Init return string with start date. */}}
+{{ $str := slice (time.Format (site.Params.hugoblox.locale.date_format | default ":date_long") (time $t1)) }}{{/* Init return string with start date. */}}
 {{/* Show start time if not all day event. */}}
-{{ if not .Params.all_day }}{{ $str = $str | append (time.Format site.Params.hugoblox.locale.time_format (time $t1)) }}{{ end }}
+{{ if not .Params.all_day }}{{ $str = $str | append (time.Format (site.Params.hugoblox.locale.time_format | default "3:04 PM") (time $t1)) }}{{ end }}
 {{/* Show event end date if provided. */}}
 {{ if .Params.date_end }}
   {{ $str = $str | append "&mdash;" }}
   {{ $t2 := time .Params.date_end}}{{/* End datetime. */}}
   {{/* Show end date if it differs to start date. */}}
   {{ if not (eq $t1.Year $t2.Year | and (eq $t1.Month $t2.Month) | and (eq $t1.Day $t2.Day)) }}
-    {{ $str = $str | append (time.Format site.Params.hugoblox.locale.date_format (time $t2)) }}
+    {{ $str = $str | append (time.Format (site.Params.hugoblox.locale.date_format | default ":date_long") (time $t2)) }}
   {{ end }}
   {{/* Show end time if not all day event. */}}
-  {{ if not .Params.all_day }}{{ $str = $str | append (time.Format site.Params.hugoblox.locale.time_format (time $t2)) }}{{ end }}
+  {{ if not .Params.all_day }}{{ $str = $str | append (time.Format (site.Params.hugoblox.locale.time_format | default "3:04 PM") (time $t2)) }}{{ end }}
 {{ end }}
 {{ return ((delimit $str " ") | safeHTML) }}