Questions tagged [date]
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Is there a package that allows to write correctly times in hours, minutes and seconds in mathematical mode?
I'm looking for a package, or even a macro that allows me to simply write duration calculations for young students.
Like for example this (Lebossé-Hemery 1957 classe de sixième):
I prefer this ...
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Why does the `date=terse` option to biblatex cause an extra space after the year in bibliography entries?
Compiling my MWE with the date=terse option to biblatex causes an extra space between the last digit in the year and the closing parenthesis. Commenting this option removes the extra space. How do I ...
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biblatex: german short date format (with periods) – remove unwanted additional space after periods
There is a small space after every period in the German short date (as well as urldate and every other date) of biblatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{...
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Fillable line above the date
I'm trying to create a fillable line in a document. I only have this so far:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{}
\begin{document}
\begin{Form}
\begin{tabbing}
xxxx: \= \kill
Lima, \> \TextField[name=...
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Next Wednesday's date
Each week I prepare notes in TeX for a Wednesday class. Mostly I prepare the notes a couple of days before. Often the notes are copied and modified from previous notes. I add the date to the notes ...
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1answer
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Timestamps on video references in biblatex/biber
Is there an easy way to get biblatex/biber to output the date field to include the time? I'm using @video (and @photo) which, as far as I can tell, lack drivers by default and so fall back to ...
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How to print tomorrow's date in ConTeXt?
I often have to display the date in ConTeXt, but not for today, as displayed with \date, but for the next day. How to print tomorrow's date instead?
E.g. August 7, 2019
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BibTeX and biber quarterly journals
I need to add a quarterly journal to my references. In these cases issues cover three months such as "January-March".
I am aware of the question Bibtex: two months with dates, however it seems that ...
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Using a variable for BIBER DATE value produces blank date in output
I'm using MikTex with biber
\usepackage[backend=biber,natbib=true,style=numeric,sorting=none]{biblatex}
and I want to use a variable for the date value, but it does not provide any output. I set up ...
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How to change date to different language in a letter [duplicate]
I am using the following template in order to create a letter
\documentclass[version=last]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{
Petra Mustermann\\
Vor dem Berg ...
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putting the date below the name
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,demo]{article} %
\usepackage[en-US]{datetime2} % <=======================================
\DTMlangsetup[en-US]{ord=raise}
\usepackage{etoolbox} % <=========...
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Generate schedule planner between two given dates
I am trying to generate a table with the following format:
I am looking for a way to generate the dates given the initial week (In this case Jun 3 - 7)
I tried using the package datenumber but I am ...
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Turn showdow off for one date in document
MRE:
% Preamble
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
% Packages
\usepackage[showdow,en-GB]{datetime2}
% Document
\begin{document}
% Turn off showdow
\DTMlangsetup{ord=raise,showyear=true,showdow=...
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biblatex: automatically abbreviate year ranges
For consistency's sake I need to abbreviate all number-ranges in my document.
While biblatex can easily be made to abbreviate page ranges the equivalent command for the year ranges breaks compilation ...
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Can a PDF show today's date, which changes when the file is opened, built in ConTeXt?
I have to share presentation slides with a co-worker. They are created daily in ConTeXt.
Throughout the slides, I have placed \date, which is an important part of the slides, but that is the date ...
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How to transform dynamic data into static data
Maybe I asked this somewhere sometime ago.
Is there a way to change dynamic data into static data?
I have defined the macro
\def\date{\the\day.\the\month.\the\year}
With every run of TeX the ...
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1answer
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Change biblatex short date format
I'm writing my document in British English, but live in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, the short date format is dd-mm-yyyy, as opposed to the British dd/mm/yyyy.
How can I get biblatex to use ...
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Is the month field really deprecated?
Jabref 3.8.2 has a tab with Deprecated fields including the field Month.
The Biblatex documentation 3.12 still describes the field month and I could not find a sign of deprecation:
Was it wrong by ...
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1answer
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Page numbering affected by recursive programming
I asked this question How to do recursive program with latex and got the following excellent answer by @JosephWright
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{advdate}
% Set the first practice date
\...
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Convert dayofweek to number
Texmaker,
how i can change dayofweek of filecontent to diplay number:
Monday = 2, Tuesday = 3...Saturday = 7, Sunday = 1
My code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{...
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1answer
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How can I automatically add the date to the output PDF file name?
Currently when I generate a PDF file of my document, it produces the name
document1.pdf
I'd like to set it so that it adds the current date (or the date produced by \date{\today}), such as
...
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British English date in elsearticle in OUP style, without “th”
Upon running pdflatex on the input
\documentclass{elsarticle}%%% Version 3.1. Actually I use the options [nonatbib,twoside,preprint] or [nonatbib,twoside,review], but it's irrelevant, I hope.
\...
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2answers
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Day of year for date format Month/Day/Year
I want to know "day of year" for a calendar.
Here's an example:
Date format : Month/Day/Year = Day of year
3/19/2019 = 78
3/19/2020 = 79
How can I find/display the Day of the year?
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Changing the date
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,demo ]{article} %
\usepackage{pifont} %bouni
%-----accent
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %écrire directement les accents et il peut poser des problème
\...
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1answer
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Convert \pdfcreationdate to pdfa-1b pdfinfo
I am using usual method to prepare pdfinfo with date conversion:
\def\convertDate{%
\getYear
}
{\catcode`\D=12
\gdef\getYear D:#1#2#3#4{\edef\xYear{#1#2#3#4}\getMonth}
}
\def\getMonth#1#2{\edef\...
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How to do recursive program with latex
I am trying to make a schedule for two groups of people who will watch the same experimental lectures at the same laboratory in different dates. I need to skip the holidays. I intend to get something ...
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1answer
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how to get the monday of a years first week?
I would like to get the date of the monday of the first week of a year from only the year
The purpose is a week planner where I put one week on each page and as most of the years first weeks monday is ...
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votes
1answer
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How to to add “th” or “rd” to the date
Hi this is the preamble I have used
\documentclass[prd,aps,superscriptaddress,twocolumn,10pt]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=1.85cm, right=1.85cm,...
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1answer
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Setting the position of date on title page
I am new using LaTeX and am therefore copy pasting a lot of packages and template into my LaTex. I am having an issue with the year on my title page. I need it to be below the department and not at ...
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How to compare a date with a set of dates
I am creating a schedule for weekly lectures using the following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{advdate}
%... Set the first lecture date
\ThisYear{2019}
\ThisMonth{3}
\ThisDay{1}
\newif\...
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1answer
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Set date counter using advdate package
I searched on mathematical operations, and found several interesing results, such as sequence, calculations, and future, among many others.
I am interested in an answer similar to this one, but ...
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1answer
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How to add birthdate in moderncv [duplicate]
I'm using moderncv and I'm having an issue adding birthdate
This is the code I'm using
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle[right]{classic}
\moderncvcolor{burgundy}
\usepackage[...
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1answer
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Display an index of dates
I write a document which tells a story long of a few months, and I would like to display an index of the main dates at the end. For example, I would like to type something like (french format): On ...
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Date is not displayed correctly in my beamer [duplicate]
The date is not displayed correctly in the inferior part of my slides.
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
{
\usetheme{Madrid} % or try default, Darmstadt, Warsaw, ...
\...
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When the number of slides of my beamer is more than 10, the date is not displayed correctly in the inferior right corner
When the number of slides of my beamer is more than 10, the date is not displayed correctly in the inferior right corner of my slides.
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
{
\usetheme{...
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Incomprehensible error with babel and isodate
The error in question is:
! Undefined control sequence.
\ifthenelse #1#2#3->\let \bbl@temp@pref
\pageref \let \pageref \org@pageref
...
l.19 \date{\today}
...
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How to use `\monthiname`, `\monthiiname`, … commands from `babel`?
Within the babel package, for each language, the month names are already defined as \month<roman number>name commands.
I was looking then for a solution that would provide me with the month ...
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1answer
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day not appearing in bibliography
I want the date to appear in the bibliography. I am using the day property but it is not working.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
\cite{test1}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}...
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1answer
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\date doesn't show date
My LaTeX code is
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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2answers
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How to calculate future dates based on custom date (e.g. 2018-05-05 + 14 days)?
I want to create invoices for customers in scrlttr2. Hereby I set the document date via \setkomavar{date}{\today}.
I reuse this date with advdate to automatically add a payment deadline into the ...
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1answer
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xtick latex hour option
I have many graph using date as x axis, and I wonder if there is an option of xtick to put a tick every hour automatically and not writting every tick like that :
xtick = {
{2018-04-27 05:00},
{2018-...
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Happy Pi day to applied scientists!
Happy Pi day to all non-American applied mathematicians and scientists (like me) who make approximations!
This is in fact TeX related as I have a question, or perhaps a puzzle. How would I make the ...
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Put text and image over lines
I found a way to put the date and signature lines as shown in the picture and with the following LaTeX code, but I am struggling with figuring out how to put the date and an image a signature over the ...
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How to get (ancient) dates with `beforechrist`localisation?
I would like to get the date(era) of this MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style = archaeologie,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{...
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1answer
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Multiple-day event date in JabRef
In JabRef, I would like to write the event date, not as a single day, but as a period. Something like:
eventdate = {YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD}
eventdate = {From YYYY-MM-DD to YYYY-MM-DD}
etc.
Does ...
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1answer
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Date not appearing in document class 'proc' [duplicate]
I am viewing it with pdflatex.
I could not understand the other question's solution
\documentclass[12pt]{proc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\title{Bus Rapid Transit}
\...
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1answer
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Package isodate Warning: Language english unknown to isodate
Consider the following input:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{babelbib} % Multilingual bibliographies
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[num,ngerman]{isodate} % Tune ...
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How to redefine \the\year
I used \the\year many times on a template. So when I compile the document, the current year is used.
The problem is that I created many documents last year, in 2017, and now I have to fix some small ...
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votes
1answer
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hyperref: Token not allowed in a PDF string (PDFDocEncoding): (Not duplicate) how to include date \today?
I have been away of Beamer for a few years and I am coming back to my old notes (samples of code) that I put together and build a few new presentations.
While I was compiling the code I got the ...
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\formatdate without day
I frequently use the \formatdate{01}{02}{2016} command to get a result like
Now I need the same thing, but without the day. I just need the month and year. Unfortunately, the \formatdate command ...
