I have two different dates in my LaTeX document which are not current dates (dates which come in my LaTeX template from the web form).
They look like this: 2016-03-31, but I want these dates be in the format dd/mm/yyyy.
What I'm doing right now is using the package \usepackage[ddmmyyyy]{date time}
and put inside the \date{} in my dates, but it doesn't change the format of the dates. How do I change the format of the dates correctly?
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How is the date typeset? You are free to typeset it the way you like, no matter if 2016-03-07 or 07th of march 2016 or 03.07.2016. Please clarify. – Johannes_B Mar 7 '16 at 12:57
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1This is again a question by you that does not show the slightest effort :-( – user31729 Mar 7 '16 at 13:04
This works out the box. If - appears as the date separator there's probably a 'wrong'redefinition of \dateseparator.
Please note date datetime isn't developed further -- Nicola Talbot has published datetime2 about a year ago.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ddmmyyyy]{datetime}
%\renewcommand{\dateseparator}{-}
\title{The Theory of Brontosaurs}
\author{Mrs. Ann Elk}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Update
Here's a version that transforms yyyy-mm-dd input into dd/mm/yyyy:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newcommand{\changedate}[2][/]{%
\tl_set:Nx \l_tmpa_tl {#2}
\seq_set_split:NnV \l_tmpa_seq {-} {\l_tmpa_tl}
\seq_reverse:N \l_tmpa_seq
\seq_use:Nnnn \l_tmpa_seq {#1} {#1} {#1}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\title{The Theory of Brontosaurs}
\author{Mrs. Ann Elk}
\newcommand{\webdate}{2016-03-31}
\date{\changedate{\webdate}}
\begin{document}
%\changedate{\webdate}
\maketitle
\end{document}
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This example is good if date refers to the today date, but what if it's the date 31.03.2016, not today, how can I define this date? – Lucky_girl Mar 7 '16 at 14:10
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1@Lucky_girl:
\date{31/03/2016};-) Actually, you don't need\datetimeat all if you want to fix the date already.\datetimechanges the output format of\today, but\date{...}works without. – user31729 Mar 7 '16 at 14:14 -
okay, but my date is in the format 2016-03-31 (it's just a text) in the document right now, can I change it automatically to the format 31/03/2016 ? – Lucky_girl Mar 7 '16 at 14:25
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@Lucky_girl: I don't understand. If it is text only you can change by hand. – user31729 Mar 7 '16 at 14:27
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1@Lucky_girl: That's in principle not the job of
\dateor ofdatetime. If you would finally post a compilable example that clearly explains what the issue is this would be much easier -- it's not Quantum Field Theory!!! Now my work proves useless :-( – user31729 Mar 7 '16 at 14:32
\date doesn't try parsing its argument. It simply stores it and the stored value is inserted into the title page when you do \maketitle, so if you do \date{2016-03-31} then that's exactly what will appear. You need to either explicitly format it the way you want it, for example, \date{31/03/2016} (as the others have suggested) or wrap the ISO date in a command that can parse it. For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[datesep=/,style=ddmmyyyy]{datetime2}
\title{Sample}
\author{Me}
\date{\DTMdate{2016-03-31}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Another date: \DTMdate{2016-03-07}.
\end{document}
Produces:
The other alternative is to modify the way \maketitle works so that it parses the value of \@date, but that requires knowing something about what class and packages you are using. Without a minimal working example (MWE) we can't help further with that.
answered Mar 7 '16 at 15:51
