From 69b9d0bc3db461436013e6da4526fccb6c09413c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pengzhanbo <volodymyr@foxmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:12:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(theme): fix `createTime` is obtained incorrectly during
 creation, close #692 (#700)

---
 theme/src/node/prepare/prepareBlogData.ts | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/theme/src/node/prepare/prepareBlogData.ts b/theme/src/node/prepare/prepareBlogData.ts
index 12c294ef..446acfa3 100644
--- a/theme/src/node/prepare/prepareBlogData.ts
+++ b/theme/src/node/prepare/prepareBlogData.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type {
   ThemePageData,
   ThemePostFrontmatter,
 } from '../../shared/index.js'
+import fs from 'node:fs'
 import { removeLeadingSlash } from '@vuepress/helper'
 import { createFilter } from 'create-filter'
 import dayjs from 'dayjs'
@@ -64,17 +65,18 @@ export async function preparedBlogData(app: App): Promise<void> {
 
   const blogData: ThemeBlogPostList = pages.map((page) => {
     const tags = page.frontmatter.tags
+    const date = page.frontmatter.createTime || page.frontmatter.date || (page.date === '0000-00-00' ? fs.statSync(page.filePath!).birthtime : page.date)
     const data: ThemeBlogPostItem = {
       path: page.path,
       title: page.title,
       categoryList: page.data.categoryList,
       tags,
       sticky: page.frontmatter.sticky,
-      createTime: dayjs(new Date(page.data.frontmatter.createTime || page.date)).format('YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss'),
+      createTime: dayjs(new Date(date)).format('YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss'),
       lang: page.lang,
       excerpt: '',
-      cover: page.data.frontmatter.cover,
-      coverStyle: page.data.frontmatter.coverStyle,
+      cover: page.frontmatter.cover,
+      coverStyle: page.frontmatter.coverStyle,
     }
 
     if (typeof data.cover === 'object') {