diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3ed4cf5..7c2c6eb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_urlencoded",
  "smallvec",
  "socket2",
- "time",
+ "time 0.3.20",
  "url",
 ]
 
@@ -259,6 +259,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "alloc-no-stdlib",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "android_system_properties"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "819e7219dbd41043ac279b19830f2efc897156490d7fd6ea916720117ee66311"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "arrayvec"
 version = "0.7.2"
@@ -429,6 +438,32 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "baf1de4339761588bc0619e3cbc0120ee582ebb74b53b4efbf79117bd2da40fd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "chrono"
+version = "0.4.24"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4e3c5919066adf22df73762e50cffcde3a758f2a848b113b586d1f86728b673b"
+dependencies = [
+ "iana-time-zone",
+ "js-sys",
+ "num-integer",
+ "num-traits",
+ "serde",
+ "time 0.1.45",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "codespan-reporting"
+version = "0.11.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3538270d33cc669650c4b093848450d380def10c331d38c768e34cac80576e6e"
+dependencies = [
+ "termcolor",
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "convert_case"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -442,7 +477,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e859cd57d0710d9e06c381b550c06e76992472a8c6d527aecd2fc673dcc231fb"
 dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
- "time",
+ "time 0.3.20",
  "version_check",
 ]
 
@@ -501,6 +536,50 @@ dependencies = [
  "nom",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cxx"
+version = "1.0.94"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f61f1b6389c3fe1c316bf8a4dccc90a38208354b330925bce1f74a6c4756eb93"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "cxxbridge-flags",
+ "cxxbridge-macro",
+ "link-cplusplus",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxx-build"
+version = "1.0.94"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "12cee708e8962df2aeb38f594aae5d827c022b6460ac71a7a3e2c3c2aae5a07b"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "codespan-reporting",
+ "once_cell",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "scratch",
+ "syn 2.0.13",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxxbridge-flags"
+version = "1.0.94"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7944172ae7e4068c533afbb984114a56c46e9ccddda550499caa222902c7f7bb"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cxxbridge-macro"
+version = "1.0.94"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2345488264226bf682893e25de0769f3360aac9957980ec49361b083ddaa5bc5"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.13",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "darling"
 version = "0.14.4"
@@ -596,6 +675,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "actix-files",
  "actix-web",
  "cached",
+ "chrono",
  "glob",
  "markdown",
  "minify-html",
@@ -734,7 +814,7 @@ checksum = "c85e1d9ab2eadba7e5040d4e09cbd6d072b76a557ad64e797c2cb9d4da21d7e4"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "libc",
- "wasi",
+ "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -875,6 +955,30 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-native-tls",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "iana-time-zone"
+version = "0.1.56"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0722cd7114b7de04316e7ea5456a0bbb20e4adb46fd27a3697adb812cff0f37c"
+dependencies = [
+ "android_system_properties",
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "iana-time-zone-haiku",
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "windows",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "iana-time-zone-haiku"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0703ae284fc167426161c2e3f1da3ea71d94b21bedbcc9494e92b28e334e3dca"
+dependencies = [
+ "cxx",
+ "cxx-build",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ident_case"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -969,6 +1073,15 @@ version = "0.2.141"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3304a64d199bb964be99741b7a14d26972741915b3649639149b2479bb46f4b5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "link-cplusplus"
+version = "1.0.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ecd207c9c713c34f95a097a5b029ac2ce6010530c7b49d7fea24d977dede04f5"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "linux-raw-sys"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -1113,7 +1226,7 @@ checksum = "5b9d9a46eff5b4ff64b45a9e316a6d1e0bc719ef429cbec4dc630684212bfdf9"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "log",
- "wasi",
+ "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
@@ -1145,6 +1258,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "minimal-lexical",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num-integer"
+version = "0.1.45"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "225d3389fb3509a24c93f5c29eb6bde2586b98d9f016636dff58d7c6f7569cd9"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "num-traits",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "num-traits"
+version = "0.2.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "578ede34cf02f8924ab9447f50c28075b4d3e5b269972345e7e0372b38c6cdcd"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num_cpus"
 version = "1.15.0"
@@ -1507,6 +1639,12 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d29ab0c6d3fc0ee92fe66e2d99f700eab17a8d57d1c1d3b748380fb20baa78cd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "scratch"
+version = "1.0.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1792db035ce95be60c3f8853017b3999209281c24e2ba5bc8e59bf97a0c590c1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "security-framework"
 version = "2.8.2"
@@ -1687,6 +1825,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.45.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "be55cf8942feac5c765c2c993422806843c9a9a45d4d5c407ad6dd2ea95eb9b6"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
 version = "1.0.40"
@@ -1707,6 +1854,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.13",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "time"
+version = "0.1.45"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1b797afad3f312d1c66a56d11d0316f916356d11bd158fbc6ca6389ff6bf805a"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "wasi 0.10.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
 version = "0.3.20"
@@ -1917,6 +2075,12 @@ version = "1.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1dd624098567895118886609431a7c3b8f516e41d30e0643f03d94592a147e36"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c0edd1e5b14653f783770bce4a4dabb4a5108a5370a5f5d8cfe8710c361f6c8b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unsafe-libyaml"
 version = "0.2.8"
@@ -1956,6 +2120,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "try-lock",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wasi"
+version = "0.10.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1a143597ca7c7793eff794def352d41792a93c481eb1042423ff7ff72ba2c31f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
 version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
@@ -2054,12 +2224,30 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-util"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "70ec6ce85bb158151cae5e5c87f95a8e97d2c0c4b001223f33a334e3ce5de178"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
 version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "windows"
+version = "0.48.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e686886bc078bc1b0b600cac0147aadb815089b6e4da64016cbd754b6342700f"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-targets 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.42.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e9612eb..3a5d47d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ minify-html = "0.10.8"
 glob = "0.3.1"
 markdown = "1.0.0-alpha.7"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json"] }
+chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
diff --git a/src/routes/blog.rs b/src/routes/blog.rs
index 2c3f53f..c193fa6 100644
--- a/src/routes/blog.rs
+++ b/src/routes/blog.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use ramhorns::Content;
 
 use crate::{
     config::Config,
-    template::{get_md_asm, get_md_metadata, read_md_file, File, FileMetadata, Infos},
+    template::{get_md_asm, get_md_metadata, read_md_file, Date, File, FileMetadata, Infos},
 };
 
 #[get("/blog")]
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ struct BlogIndexTemplate {
     posts: Option<Vec<Post>>,
 }
 
-#[derive(Content, Debug)]
+#[derive(Content)]
 struct Post {
     title: String,
-    date: String,
+    date: Date,
     url: String,
 }
 
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ pub fn get_index(config: Config) -> String {
         .filter(|f| f.path().extension().unwrap() == "md")
         .collect::<Vec<std::fs::DirEntry>>();
 
+    // Sort by latest modification/ date of creation
     entries.sort_by_cached_key(|f| {
         f.metadata()
             .unwrap()
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ pub fn get_index(config: Config) -> String {
         })
         .collect::<Vec<Post>>();
 
+    // TODO sort vec by post date metadata, removing the sort above
+
     config.tmpl.render(
         "blog/index.html",
         BlogIndexTemplate {
diff --git a/src/template.rs b/src/template.rs
index a7b4998..d62965c 100644
--- a/src/template.rs
+++ b/src/template.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+use chrono::{Datelike, NaiveDate};
 use markdown::mdast::Node;
 use ramhorns::{Content, Ramhorns};
-use serde::Deserialize;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Deserializer};
 use std::fs;
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -58,12 +59,37 @@ impl FrontMatter<'_> {
         }
     }
 }
+#[derive(Content, Default, Debug)]
+pub struct Date {
+    day: u32,
+    month: u32,
+    year: i32,
+}
 
-#[derive(Default, Deserialize, Content)]
+impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for Date {
+    fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
+    where
+        D: Deserializer<'de>,
+    {
+        match <&str>::deserialize(deserializer) {
+            Ok(s) => match NaiveDate::parse_from_str(s, "%d-%m-%Y") {
+                Ok(date) => Ok(Self {
+                    day: date.day(),
+                    month: date.month(),
+                    year: date.year(),
+                }),
+                Err(e) => Err(serde::de::Error::custom(e)),
+            },
+            Err(e) => Err(e),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Default, Deserialize, Content, Debug)]
 pub struct FileMetadata {
     pub title: Option<String>,
     pub link: Option<String>,
-    pub date: Option<String>,
+    pub date: Option<Date>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Content)]