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')."pdfcreation
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.