From 936c737a32769c45558da536e64d6aa9161535cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Burnette <ryan.burnette@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:21:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Address #3298

---
 lib/jekyll/filters.rb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
index fca03437..5972aad6 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ module Jekyll
       case input
       when Time
         input
+      when Date
+        input.to_time
       when String
         Time.parse(input) rescue Time.at(input.to_i)
       when Numeric

From 588bba39adaa2ed001c693d4c5c74b7aaa296af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Burnette <ryan.burnette@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:51:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add test for Date object in filters.rb

---
 test/test_filters.rb | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/test_filters.rb b/test/test_filters.rb
index 659b7a84..a8cd9737 100644
--- a/test/test_filters.rb
+++ b/test/test_filters.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class TestFilters < Test::Unit::TestCase
     setup do
       @filter = JekyllFilter.new({"source" => source_dir, "destination" => dest_dir, "timezone" => "UTC"})
       @sample_time = Time.utc(2013, 03, 27, 11, 22, 33)
+      @sample_date = Date.parse("2013-03-27")
       @time_as_string = "September 11, 2001 12:46:30 -0000"
       @time_as_numeric = 1399680607
       @array_of_objects = [
@@ -80,6 +81,24 @@ class TestFilters < Test::Unit::TestCase
         end
       end
 
+      context "with Date object" do
+        should "format a date with short format" do
+          assert_equal "27 Mar 2013", @filter.date_to_string(@sample_date)
+        end
+
+        should "format a date with long format" do
+          assert_equal "27 March 2013", @filter.date_to_long_string(@sample_date)
+        end
+
+        should "format a time with xmlschema" do
+          assert_equal "2013-03-27T00:00:00+00:00", @filter.date_to_xmlschema(@sample_date)
+        end
+
+        should "format a time according to RFC-822" do
+          assert_equal "Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000", @filter.date_to_rfc822(@sample_date)
+        end
+      end
+
       context "with String object" do
         should "format a date with short format" do
           assert_equal "11 Sep 2001", @filter.date_to_string(@time_as_string)

From 80465efff7485bdf9522c3bda3069ee761e09367 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Burnette <ryan.burnette@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:51:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Require date in filters.rb

---
 lib/jekyll/filters.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
index 5972aad6..e76fa755 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/filters.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require 'uri'
 require 'json'
+require 'date'
 
 module Jekyll
   module Filters