Jekyll and GitHub

So when I created my personal site with Jekyll, I was using the latest version. Everything looked a-o-k on my own end, but as soon as I pushed everything to GitHub, I found one issue.

I was using the {% assign %} tag to grab the year of a post, or even the year of generation of the site. For example, {% assign current_year = site.time | date:"%Y" %}. Now, GitHub's version of Jekyll doesn't seem to like filters in the assign tag, so the simple workaround is to use a {% capture %} tag.

{% capture current_year %}{{ site.time | date:"%Y" }}{% endcapture %}

And voila, we have a filter applied to some value, and then storing it into a variable for reuse. Simple, I know. Nevertheless, I thought I'd share this simple workaround to the world.