How to put the current date in the footer of every page

Question

My document class is scrartcl and I defined the pagemargins with geometry as follows

\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[left=2cm, right=1cm, bottom=2cm, a4paper, twoside]{geometry} 

So the page numbers are in the corners of the pages. I want to put the current date with a preceding text somewhere above the page numbers maybe next to them. I don't know, whatever works at all and looks better. It should be just like this:

Stand: 27.05.2021

I read that fancyhdr should not be used with scrartcl, so I don't really know how to handle footers with koma script.

Answer 1

You can use the scrlayer-scrpage package in this kind of situation (essentially it replaces fancyhdr for KOMA script classes)

Here is an example:

\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[left=2cm, right=1cm, bottom=2cm, a4paper, twoside]{geometry} 
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}

\lofoot{\upshape Stand: \today}
\begin{document}
    Inhalt...
\end{document}

Where upshape makes sure it is not in italics and babel ensures the date is typeset in German rather than US american.

If, like you asked, the date should be above the pagenumber, you can do this:

\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[left=2cm, right=1cm, bottom=2.5cm, a4paper, twoside]{geometry} 
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}

\rofoot{\upshape Stand: \today \\ \thepage}
\begin{document}
    Inhalt...
\end{document}

Note that in this case, your bottom margin was to small and I added .5cm.

For more information on this package, read chapter 5 of the KOMA-manual, which explains all of the options.