Want to eliminate the automatic time stamp of pdflatex (or lyx?)

Question

Whenever I create a document with lyx, and if there is title and author in the document, today's time is automatically put in the document.

For example, if I pdf-fy the following code by WinEdt, or in lyx, the outcome is https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw2iKVlLwpjaNTNhS3drWFBPTEE/edit?usp=sharing

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\maketitle
test
\end{document}

What's the code to remove that time stamp from the output document?

Answer 1

To answer this question explicitly (not only via comments)...

Use the plain \date{} command before calling maketitle. This excludes the date line from the titlepage as described here.

If, for whatever reason, you require the date line to be blank but present, you could use a invisible date e.g. with \date{\phantom{x}}.

Thus, the complete minimal example would be

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\date{}
\maketitle
test
\end{document}