Background
Trying to include a date two days in the future from when the content was generated.
Problem
The following results in an empty day name:
\usepackage{datetime}
\usepackage{datenumber}
% ...
\shortdayofweekname{\day}{\month}{\year}
The following works as expected:
\usepackage{datetime}
% ...
\shortdayofweekname{\day}{\month}{\year}
Would like to do the following:
\usepackage{datetime}
\usepackage{datenumber}
% Preamble
\setdatetoday
\addtocounter{datenumber}{2}%
\setdatebynumber{\thedatenumber}%
% Document...
\shortdayofweekname{\thedateday}{\thedatemonth}{\thedateyear}
It looks like there is a package conflict.
Desired Output
For example, if today was January 10, 2011, then the result should read:
Wed Jan 12 18:03:02 EST 2011
Question
I have emailed the datetime package author; what else can be done to resolve the problem?
Thank you!
date
command. The man page tells me that "[t]he date utility is expected to be compatible with IEEE Std 1003.2 ('POSIX.2')." – TH. Jan 11 '11 at 10:22pdfcreation
stamp. This is based on UTC. UTC does not define TimeZone strings such as EST, as they are confusing for example EST is both European Summer Time, the daylight-saving time used in Europe and the US Eastern Standard Time. There are also problems for some countries like Russia having 9 different time zones. The IEEE Std (much older than the ISO ones does allow). You can imagine you are an ISP sorting emails and you can see the difficulties. – Yiannis Lazarides Jan 12 '11 at 1:00