[OS X TeX] datetime package

[Alan Munn]

At 9:49 PM +0100 3/16/07, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>Am 16.03.2007 um 18:55 schrieb Salvatore Enrico Indiogine:
>
>>However, I do not know how to use it to modify my \today output.
>
>	\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
>	\usepackage{ifpdf}
>	\ifpdf
>	   \immediate\write16{Bonjour, PDF!}
>	   \usepackage{cmap}
>	   \usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility}]{microtype}
>	\else		% for non-pdfTeX
>	   \immediate\write16{¡Hola: DVI!}
>	%#   \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,.gif,.eps,.ps,.jpeg}
>	   \usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=false]{microtype}
>	\fi
>	\usepackage[ngerman,UKenglish]{babel}
>	%\usepackage{lmodern}
>	\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>	\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
>	\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
>
>
>	\begin{document}
>
>	   \selectlanguage{ngerman}Heute ist der \today, oder, dass die ganze
>	   Welt es auch versteht: \number\year-\ifnum\month > 9 \number\month
>	   \else 0\number\month-\number\day.
>	   {\selectlanguage{UKenglish}\today}
>
>	\end{document}

Now this is an obvious bit of code if I ever saw 
one. (Even without the extra stuff that isn't 
necessary) :-) Especially for a beginner.

>There aren't *many* options to change the format ...

datetime has more than 12 (all easily chosen and easy to remember)

Alan


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