Questions tagged [date]
For questions related to dates in various sections of a document, bibliography, or related.
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Redefine the abbreviated months with datetime2 package
I was wondering if there is a way to redefine the abbreviated months with datetime2 package, such that, when using the command \today, months are written exactly like the first column of the image ...
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Change the citation's "accessed on" date format
I would like to change the date format that appears in the citation's "urldate". Right now it's at yyyy-mm-dd and I would like to change it to dd/mm/yyyy, I've tried with
\usepackage[...
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The Location of the Date in Letter Class
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{letter}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}
{Name \\
Address \\
Location }
%\date{February 15, 2023}
\opening{Dear ---,} ...
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How to add parenthesis around the question mark after the date which is uncertain in biblatex?
First a MWS and its output are as follows.
\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,dateuncertain=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\...
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How to add a question mark after date when the date is uncertain in biblatex?
First a MWS and its output are as follows.
\documentclass[american]{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{filecontents*}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@book{...
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Can I use "australian" option only for \mkbibdatelong but use "british" for everything else?
I have two code examples here.
Option british for babel
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,date=year,urldate=long,dateabbrev=false]{biblatex}
\...
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Format "visited on" date in "dd Month yyyy" format (example: "1 October 2006") in references list
My code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear,date=year,urldate=long,dateabbrev=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
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Date removal on a LaTeX document [duplicate]
I started to write a paper on LaTeX format, but today's date is displayed after the title. I'm not sure why it is being displayed when none of the commands seem to be indicating it.
Code:
\...
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How change the date format of url field of biblatex package?
I need to print, for instance, 15 October 2022 and not the 15th October 2022. I found a similar question old_solution where it is reported to use the australian language since it formats the dates ...
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Why doesn't \date work?
\documentclass[notitlepage, 12pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{amsthm, amsmath, amsaddr, amssymb, graphicx, dsfont,}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2}
\usepackage{natbib}
\...
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How to Suppress the Date Generated by Maketitle [duplicate]
Consider the code:
\documentclass[titlepage,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[showframe,margin=.3in,paperwidth=4in,paperheight=6in]{geometry}
\textheight=5.25in
\usepackage[frame,noinfo,center]{crop}
\...
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Removing date while preserving month and year from \today?
I wish to format today's date as october 2022. Emphasis on the lowercase october. I know that \today gives me October 24, 2022. How can I extract just the month and the year? I tried using \the\month \...
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How to remove space reserved for \author in documentclass article's \maketitle?
The space reserved for \date is removed when it is left empty. Compare the two examples below.
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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{Test}
\author{Dave}
\date{Tomorrow}
\maketitle
This ...
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isodate: \date inside \daterange
I am currently using the isodate package to perform locate-specific date formatting.
There are certain dates that I store in variables since I use them throughout the document. Unfortunately, these ...
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How to insert the next month, like /today?
I'd like to create a command that would insert the next month (in relation to the current one), like so:
\command -> November
analogously to \today.
The command cannot be hardcoded, as the ...
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How to generate different title in other page other than the title in the title page with no author and no date?
I am using overleaf.
This is my code in main.tex file-
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,graphicx,hyperref,ulem,physics,enumitem,mathtools,titling}
\...
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Customizing Bibliography using biblatex
I'm struggling with understanding how to change the bibliography in biblatex. The style I'm using is "numeric-comp" which according to my MWE below gives me the following order:
Name, G., “...
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repeat.tex and \date: Not working with ngerman option
How to get the right date in a German document using the repeat.tex file? This can be found on ctan.org under repeat.tex. I always get the english version.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\KOMAoptions{%
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Why is the German option ignored by igo.sty?
It is not a serious issue, but I would like to know why this happens.
If I compile
\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\title{Title}
\date{\today}
\usepackage{igo}
\begin{...
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Getting numerical value for day of the month [duplicate]
When I use \today it gives me
July 11, 2022
I would like to get the numerical value of the day of the month instead. Kind of like this:
\todaynum
11
How could I make a command that would return ...
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Trouble positioning the date in a complex titlepage
I have got the following template online (with some searching) and basically my problem is how to set the date close to the lower part of the title page.
The code I used to get the output above ...
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How to have (author, n.d.) using @misc in natbib
I would appreciate your assistance on how to make the in-text citation be (author, n.d.) instead of (author, nd) for references with no date. Strange thing is that n.d. is showing in my reference list ...
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How to calculate the number of days (and weeks) between a date and \today
Background:
I've been trying to find a way to get LaTeX to automatically calculate the number of days and weeks (and even years for the sake of completeness) elapsed between a predefined date and \...
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Set specific dates
I have spent a fair couple of hours on this, including searching this forum, but I still haven't managed to solve my issue, therefore decided to ask a question here.
I am trying to run the following ...
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In what format the day need to be specified in date?
Is it
\date{April 5, 2022}
or
\date{April 05, 2022}
Is that leading 0 necessary for days?
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How to Extract the Three First Letters of Current Month in French without Accented Characters?
Is there a way to extract the 3 first letters of the current month in French but WITHOUT acented characters AND with the first letter capitalized - e.g. Fev for Février (February in english) - AND ...
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How to use two different date formats: yymmdd and dd/mm/yyyy?
I would like to be able to use, in the same document, these two date formats:
dd/mm/yyyy (as default format)
yymmdd (as "local" format)
Why I want that?
Because I would like to use the &...
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Current day using \today for March give `Mars`
I'm using \today command to add current day to the document. For some reason it is printing MARS instead of MARCH.
I'm using this template
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/awesome-source-cv/...
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Get dates from ICS file
In (several) LaTeX documents I need to write about dates that I already have in Thunderbird so I can export them easily as ICS (iCalender) file. Copying them is very error prone, in particular if any ...
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Expand \today in custom format
I want to fill in an already printed form. The form has boxes to write down current date. How can I expand current date so that it look like 1 4 0 2 2 0 2 2
with a space between the digits
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Why can't this code successfully parse the date string?
As an attempt to practice with expl3, I am trying to parse numerical date string to French. There is a \mymodule_display_date_year_month_day:n which receives a string of form yyyy-mm-dd (or yyyy-mm or ...
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How to extract year from date in iso 8601 format?
I want to extract the year (or day or month) of a date which is stored as ISO 8601 in a database.
My MWE looks like:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{datatool}
\newcommand{\...
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How to view the date in biblatex when using the bibliographystyle: IEEEtran?
I am using the IEEEtran bibliographystyle and have a lot of web ressources. On each web ressoruce I want the date with the time of last access wich Zotero stores me as date in my .bib file.
Her is my ...
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Biblatex: Different entry types have different date formats (with and without brackets) in bibliography
I am using biblatex with IEEE and I am getting dates with and without brackets around them, depending on which entry type I'm using (such as @journal, @online, @misc, etc).
I have tried searching ...
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Without using packages, define function \lastMonth as Last month, The year for last month LaTeX
Using this format, how would I assign the month to be last month/year instead of current month/year? For example, if I run it tomorrow (01/01), \lastMonth =January, 2022, but I will need it to be \...
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How to format \today to the 'DD MMM YYYY' format?
Can anyone tell me how to format \today to 'DD MMM YYYY' format?
Something that gives '10 Jun 2021' would be ideal but I can work with '10 JUN 2021'.
I have looked in all the suggested answers but ...
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How can I extract a date from a file named YYYYMMDD.tex and convert it to date string?
I have a .tex file which is named 20160201.tex, and within that file, I would like to extract the filename without .tex and convert it to the string February 01, 2016? I am able to get the string via ...
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Model as shown in the image
What code do I use to place this model as shown in the image? "April 2007" below the page. So it stays on every page of the document.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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biblatex-chicago: works with same author and no date all appear the same in text
I have the problem with a few websites I am citing for my thesis using biblatex-chicago. For example, I have several wikipedia pages I am citing, all which have no date and therefore appear with "...
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Different authors, same name and same year of publication in natbib
In my thesis, I cite two different authors who have the same name, and their work were published the same year. This appears in my bibliography as follows:
Levinson, Peter. 2016a. ...
Levinson, Simon....
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Date stamp for each page
This question led to a new package:
datestamp
I am making a workbook, and I want it to show the last a certain page was modified.
How can I make a date stamp at the bottom of each page (f.x. "...
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I want to create a command like "\mês" which returns the atual month in portuguese, like "Agosto"
I want to create a command like "\mês" which returns the atual month in portuguese, like "Agosto".
I'm usually using the command \the\year to show the year, and the \date returns ...
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Store \today value with \DTMsavedate
Goal
With datetime2 package I try to save the “\today” date with \DTMdatesave command, but it successively fail.
My tries
1. The dumb method
I began with the most evident way. Putting directly \today ...
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How to get the dates of each Sunday in a month
Is there a way to cleanly calculate the dates of every Sunday in the current month? IE for this month (August 2021) it would return 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29?
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Convert from Today's Date to Specified Date
I am just a few hours new to TeX and have been tasked to modify an existing template (tex) document for parsing.
I have this in an cls file that works fine to add #1 days to today's date:
\newcommand*{...
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How to remove the words 'Who?' and 'When?' in the title page of Bergen beamer theme?
I am creating a simple presentation using the Bergen theme in beamer. I like almost everything about it, except the words 'Who?' and 'When' as respective quantifiers for the author and date in the ...
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Adding date on right [closed]
I want a result like this, a simple date on the right.
Sorry for the question, I'm a beginner
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How to iterate over days and weeks of the year
Thanks to the help of this community I've managed to create a digital planner template page.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[landscape, margin=0.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[...
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Date and References in the footer of the first page of a report
I am writing a report in which i need to write date in the footer. But only in the first page of the report. How do I write date in footer? Also I need to write the references there in the footer of ...
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How to put the current date in the footer of every page
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 ...
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