urldate not working

Question

I need to display the date of access for the websites cited in my dissertation. I've used urldate = {} , but it does not actually display any date. I only get the date printed when I use date = {}.

You can see my MWE below. The first bib entry has urldate = {}. The second entry with the key janzvat49 has the date = {}.

So,

Why is urldate not working
How do I get it to say Accessed on <date>.
- It needs to come after the title and before the url preceded and followed by commas.
- And for the bibliography, same place but preceded and followed by periods.

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.25in,right=1.25in,top=1in,bottom=1in,headheight=12pt,headsep=12pt,ignorehead,ignorefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage[series={A,B},nocritical,noend,noeledsec,nofamiliar,noledgroup]{reledmac}
\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}
%\captionsetup[figure]{position=bottom,belowskip=-13pt}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\SetLanguageKeys{english}{indentfirst=true}
\usepackage[style=sbl,maxcitenames=3,maxbibnames=100,minnames=1,backend=biber,citepages=omit,fullbibrefs=true,sblfootnotes=false,citereset=chapter,doi=false,url=true]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\newfontfamily\greekfont{SBL BibLit}[
Script=Greek,
Scale=MatchUppercase,
Ligatures=TeX
]
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont{SBL BibLit}[
Script=Hebrew,
Contextuals=Alternate,
Ligatures=Required
]
\begin{filecontents}{web.bib}
@online{janzvat,
  author= {Janz, Timothy},
  title = {Greek Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance: 2. Introduction to Minuscule Bookhands},
  url = {https://spotlight.vatlib.it/greek-paleography/feature/2-introduction-to-minuscule-bookhands},
  urldate = {2022-02-11}
  }
@online{janzvat49,
author={Janz, Timothy},
title={Greek Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance: 4. Ninth- and Tenth-Century Minuscules},
url={https://spotlight.vatlib.it/greek-paleography/feature/4-ninth-and-tenth-century-minuscules},
date = {2022-02-11}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{web.bib}
\begin{document}
Text\autocite{janzvat}. And two.\autocite{janzvat49}
\printbibliography[title=\normalfont BIBLIOGRAPHY]
\end{document}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '22 at 19:47

According to the biblatex-sbl documentation

The SBLHS discourages the use of access dates. [See SBLHS §6.1.6, 84.]

so urldate is not shown by default, but you can use the option

accessdate

to get urldate printed.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\SetLanguageKeys{english}{indentfirst=true}
\usepackage[style=sbl, accessdate]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@online{janzvat,
  author  = {Janz, Timothy},
  title   = {Greek Paleography: From Antiquity to the Renaissance: 2. Introduction to Minuscule Bookhands},
  url     = {https://spotlight.vatlib.it/greek-paleography/feature/2-introduction-to-minuscule-bookhands},
  urldate = {2022-02-11}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
Text\autocite{janzvat}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

thank you that does what I need. Just as a follow up, how can I change the order of the output date, instead of 11 February... to February 11? — Rob28, Dec 02 '22 at 00:44
I have made a separate question about that follow up: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/667196/american-date-format — Rob28, Dec 02 '22 at 02:04

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