Questions tagged [date]
For questions related to dates in various sections of a document, bibliography, or related.
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How to (manually) set the date in a letter?
I'm trying to start writing letters with Latex, starting with the letter document class:
\documentclass{letter}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\signature{Joe Bloggs}
\address{21 Bridge Street \\ Smallville \\ ...
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Is there a package that allows to write correctly times in hours, minutes and seconds in mathematical mode?
This question is followed by this one: Is it possible to adapt a duration calculation macro to use it in a foreach loop?
I'm looking for a package, or even a macro that allows me to simply write ...
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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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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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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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Give date as iso format
Currently, when I use \date{} for an old document, I put the explicit form of the date. But this is a problem because I print all my documents in two versions, a personal version (with the form ) ...
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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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Formatting datetime2 in LaTex to 4th September, 2016 without the current day?
I'm currently using
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{datetime}
and I'm getting
Sunday 4th September, 2016
with the commands \today or with \newdate{example}{01}{09}{2016} (outside of \...
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Online sources without "last edited" date field
My university requires online sources to include three different dates per entry:
Date of original publication
Date of last edit
date of visiting the website
Well, the first and third date are easy, ...
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How to redefine the \today with superscript?
How can I redefine \today so that today's current date comes in the format
May 26th, 2016
I need the "th" to be superscript.
It should come to the bottom right corner of the page. The code does not ...
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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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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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\date{} doesn't work with new update
When I use \date{} with the recent updates, see example below:
\begin{document}
\title{Mathematics of Finance 2}
\author{Daniel Royer\\
Geneva Business School\\February 2018}
\date{February 2018}
\...
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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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Date format (in bib entry) / bibelatex biber
I'm using biber and biblatex and I wanna print all thesis prior to 2013. When I use
year = {2010}
entry in the .bib file, every think works fine. However, if I use
date = {2010-11-25}
instead of ...
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How can I write the date in french?
I use the following command:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
but the date is just shown as "16 fvrier 2017" missing a "é", I wonder how should I deal with this ...
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moderncv date year on top month
I am using the moderncv package to write my CV. If I put a date in a long format like this:
September 2014 - February 2015
the first column will be to wide to put enough content in the CV.
I have ...
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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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Using the document title to get the correct date
I create a lot of handouts and the like for my students using LaTeX. I find that I forget to update the date field, and so I often give out handouts with the incorrect date on the top. This is a bit ...
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Get Weekdayname from custom date
I'm new to LaTeX and need help.
I want to convert a input of this date format: 20161027 to this output:
"Thursday, 27.10.2016"
I tried around with the packages xstring and datenumber.
The following ...
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Get date elements as strings
I want to know if there is a way to get the date elements (year, month, day, hour, minute, second) in order to create a lucky of version number that automatically increments. For example if now it is ...
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Raw format of \pdfcreationdate?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\pdfcreationdate % LuaLaTeX: {\pdffeedback creationdate}
\end{document}
The above prints a string like this (I am in Pacific Standard time zone, which ...
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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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Localized date ranges
biblatex (with biber) supports all kinds of date information, including ranges. Dates follow ISO 8601, which is great, and they are localized (plays nice with babel).
I would like to get localized ...
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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 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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Bibliography: How can I use a date in any field?
Sometimes I would like to use a date in \titleaddon or any field, but neither \printdate nor \bibdate nor \mkbibdate ... works, though I've loaded isodate.
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{etex}
\...
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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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Extra space in \today command with polyglossia
Compiling with polyglossia, there's extra space before the year in the \today command:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{norsk}
\begin{document}
\today
7. ...
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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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XeLaTeX version of \pdfinfoomitdate (or method to accomplish the same)?
According to:
Can I suppress Date Created metadata field in output of pdflatex?
and
Reproducible LaTeX builds - compile to a file which always hashes to the same value
pdfTeX (versions ≥1.40.17) ...
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\date does not work [duplicate]
I've got this .tex file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{here}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\...
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Edit \today in such a way that it displays 1st/2nd/3rd/4th, etc. Month Year
I have found questions where \today has been edited – but in such a way which I do not want to have. Yet, I do not know how to programme it.
If I write \today, I do not want to see something like ...
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Command for today's date in two specific formats (12 Dec 17 and 12 December 2017)
I want to be able to just type either the short version or long version by a command, like \longtoday and \shorttoday. Some more examples of short dates are 12 May 17 and 01 Jan 07, long dates are the ...
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How to override \today in a letter?
Im trying to write a letter with the next code
\documentclass{letter}
\signature{Your name}
\address{Street \\ City \\ Country}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{Company name \\ Street\\ City\\ Country}
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BibLaTeX entry year or date with text in it? The need to avoid a warning
Is there a way to use the bibentry for year or date with for example date = {Around 171} or year = {Around 171} if the year and date of the work is historically not exactly known and to be precise ...
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Formatted date via directlua
I would like to get today's date formatted using \directlua. The % signs seem to be a problem. And I don't know how to get it to work.
Both attempts in the following example throw errors:
\...
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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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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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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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How to set the date in beamer notes?
Is there a way to set an specific date (e.g. the presentation date) in beamer's notes?
Using \date{some date} has no effect in the notes. Only the compilation date is shown.
Thanks.
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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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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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Using apa6, how do I get the date to appear on the title page after the authors
I've tried using:
\data{\today}
but no date is printed on the title page.
The only way I can get a date on the title page is by putting \today between the \begin{document} and \maketitle, i.e.:
\...
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How to reference bi-monthly journal in biblatex
The biblatex manual states one can't reference a month range (e.g. "Jan-Feb") under month, but to use date instead for establishing date ranges. The table with example date formats in the manual doesn'...
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dd.mm.yyyy date formatting in BibLaTeX
So this might be a bit specific of a question, but I need BibLaTeX to output dates in the long DMY format - dd.mm.yyyy that is.
BibLaTeX documentation states that one can achieve dd/mm/yyyy by using ...
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ISO Date Format
I have done a search on this forum and on the internet and have not found the answer to my question.
I am looking to use an ISO date format such as 2018W083 for today (2018-02-21) in my reports. I use ...
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Arbitrary date with polyglossia for localisation formatting
I want to be able to define a variable of an arbitrary date and print it in different languages. And since polyglossia automatically formats the \today date, I am sure this can be achieved with it.
I ...
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How to print complete date field in biblatex-chicago?
I'm trying to to get biblatex-chicago to print out some nonstandard date formats as I've written them in Zotero before exporting to a .bib file:
1971 (2006)
2016a
2016b
Originally Zotero exported ...
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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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