Questions tagged [datetime]
{datetime} is about either setting time stamps for your document or handling time data in {diagrams} (e.g., using {pgfplots}). If you are setting the date/time for a title, include the {titles} tag.
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How to format date inputed from file in date format and percentage?
I have inputs with tuple (date, percent) in a csv file:
(The date are integers with 44 000 <-> 18 June 2020)
date,pct
44755,0.01925374
44756,0.01925374
44757,0.01925374
[...]
44768,0.018989264
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date format for specific date
I am using the package like this:
\usepackage[nodayofweek, short]{datetime}
So when I am using \today it shows exactly what I want like this:
So I have two questions. One, how to omit the year? Two, ...
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Ouptut the current time using `datetime` to a file
How do I print the current time to a file using the datetime pacakge. While running pdflatex I am generating a foo.def in which I would like to add a comment at the top with the current date time in ...
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How to customize display of date and time of compiling
How do I customize date and time display for the compile date and time? I see the datetime2 package gives many predefined options, but what if I want to do something unique? The datetime2 mentions the ...
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Capitalizing first character of \today independently of the language
I'm writing a document class that uses the datetime2 package to write a month-year date in the title of the document. Here is a MWE:
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{customclass.cls}
\...
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Capitalize \dayofweekname first letter
I'm working with dates, in particular with \dayofweekname. Is there any way to capitalize the first letter (i.e. the output monday should become Monday)? I tried with \MakeUppercase and \...
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Get date from filename and format it
I was trying to customize the header of a document when I encountered some difficulties. I'm working on this project in which there are several .tex files and each one is named as yyyyMMdd.tex. My ...
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Visual Studio Code LaTeX date time
I am using visual studio code LaTeX workshop. Here is my code :
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[yyyymmdd,hhmmss]{datetime}
\title{my title}
\author{author}
\date{Compiled at: \today-\currenttime}
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How do I set the x axis as a time axis?
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[scatter, only marks] table[x ...
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Incomplete \iffalse when using datetime package and \write
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A function that enables me to write custom log data.
The result is the command \writeToLog (see MWE), which writes its input to the file log.txt.
Issue
In my actual document I'm using the ...
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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 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 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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How to make counter which count mondays of specific month?
I want to construct a counter with two arguments - year and month, say \tt{year}{month}. The usage like blah-blah \tt{2022}{6}, blah-blah \tt{2022}{6} gives blah-blah 06/06, blah-blah 13/06. If the ...
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datetime, language not supported
I want to use the datetime package to get the name of the months, but the package does not support one of the languages I am using. I am writing a template (with a .sty file), so I want to be able to ...
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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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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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tabularx package compatibility for question 408900 (Protocol)
In the question How can make a protocol in latex?
there is an interesting solution given by Werner. The problem is that if you try to insert it in a document using one (just one) of the following ...
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How to change the timezone of my latex document irrespective of my computer time zone using datetime2?
I want to change the timezone format (say, I want to use always GMT-3 timezone). I am using the datetime2 package. Do I need to use the following command as mentioned in the manual?
\DTMdisplayzone{〈...
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How is \longdate defined in datetime
I would like to define my own date format similarly to \longdate or \shortdate with the datetime package such that it automatically changes based on the language selected for the babel package.
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How to combine these two expl3-based functions to show the day of week in English?
I wrote a function \projlib_datetime_calculate_day_of_week_with_year_month_day:nnn to calculate the "day of week" given the year, month and day (the algorithm adopted should work for dates ...
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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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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 get the date info right aligned correctly inline with the name info?
I want the date info to come inline with my name and produce a pdf similar to
I used the following code
This results in slight offset on the date display( I wonder why the date is displayed above ...
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display custom date with custom date format with datetime package
using 'datetime' package, one can produce a custom date with custom date format like this:
\usepackage{datetime}
\newdateformat{nwfmt}{\the\day, \THEDAY \monthday, \THEYEAR}
\newdate{mydate}{21}{12}{...
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Find every weekend in a week: \advdate, \datetime
I am creating my own calendar. That means for each page in my book a day is reserved: dd.mm.yyy (day of week).
Via a foreach loop I change the current date:
\usepackage{advdate}
\usepackage{datetime}
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Offset section currenttime by hours
I want to change timezone in a section of a document. An hour offset from server time would suffice. Using package datetime, how do I add or subtract hours from date \today?
Using advdate and datetime ...
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Change slash to dot in biblatex [duplicate]
I am wondering how it is possible to change mm/yyyy to mm.yyyy in biblatex.
Are these used correctly?
alldates=terse
labeldate=year
if I say labeldate = year, wouldn't that usually lead to omitting ...
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How to simply insert month and year in middle of the paragraph?
I am writing my thesis and I want to insert month and year of some past events at lot of places! How to do that? Can anyone suggest me a simplest way to do it? I am very much beginner in LaTeX. And ...
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Date time in two rows in Italian format and time zone
I have now created this MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,margin=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{datetime2}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\...
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How to add automatic Date that updates upon opening in Latex
I know there is a command called \today; this will show the date that the document is created.
But how do I set the date that can automatically update depending on the date of opening the pdf?
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Using \today in \hyperref package
Posting a question for the first time so please let me know if I missed anything.
I am working in a LaTeX document and here is what I want to achieve using the hyper ref package:
Have a URL that is ...
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Add days to a specific date in datetime2 in a for loop / foreach loop
I want to calculate the beginning and ending date of a week (first day is Monday, last is Sunday). This is working fine for a single date. Now I want to calculate the start and end of multiple weeks ...
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How do I add a dot inside the zeros on the date?
My MWE
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
%%%%%%%%%%%%% dot with zero
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\pmzerodot}{%
\nfss@text{%
\sbox0{$\vcenter{}$}% math axis
\sbox2{0}%
\sbox4{0\/}%
\ooalign{%
0\...
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How can I convert a datetime month name to uppercase?
I'm trying to create a date style that results in
01 JUN 2020
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[showseconds=false,useregional=text,calc]{datetime2}
\...
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Expansion of datetime command
For a project I'm working on, I am writing text from a LaTeX document to a simple PHP document to use on a poster. However, I've run into a problem which I'm unable to resolve;
I am using the ...
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Print a date in LaTeX
I am looking for a LaTeX command or macro that will allow me to specify a date in a standard format which will then be formatted according to a globally set print format.
For example, I would ...
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Saving pdf with Date and name
I have a file called quotes.tex. When I run it, it creates my quote for that date for a certain customer.
I now want to save this quote.pdf automatically as date_customer_quote. How can I do that?
\...
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Create date for expiry - future date
I'm able to change today's date to different format: month YEAR, normal and digits.
Now I also need to add a future date: 28 days from today. How can I do that?
\documentclass[a4paper,12p]{article}
\...
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Compare dates - display month/year only once [duplicate]
I want to compare dates and not display the same information twice.
i.e. if I have been somewhere from 5/2/19 - 14/2/19 I want to display: "From 5th - 14th February 2019" rather than the long version, ...
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How to get the date in MM/DD format with datetime2?
Probably straightforward, but it eluded me so far.
\documentclass[
12pt
%,draft
]{report}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[en-US]{datetime2}
\begin{document}
\DTMdate{2020-02-19} % 02/19/2020
\end{...
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How can I assign unique numbers, or a sequence, in LaTeX?
I'm trying to make flashcards to export to Anki, a flashcard program. I'm using the following link: http://reh.math.uni-duesseldorf.de/~zibrowius/LatexNoteImporter/
I'd like to assign each card with ...
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Make documents where the date printed on the document is automatically the date of creation of document
Is there a way to create latex documents where the date printed on the documents is always by default the date of creation of the document?
I don't want to compile the same latex file 30 days later ...
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Set \currenttime to specifc date and time
So I know this question may come across a bit weird but I'm looking for a way to change what LaTeX considers the current time. (In other words what \currenttime is for LaTeX)
I'd like to have this ...
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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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pgfplots: How to add time axis as second x-axis?
I preprocessed a series of data into a time column and a further column with time distance to zero, the latter as decimal value.
Minimum Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
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Define cover colors based on current month
I am writing a style guide documentation and I want to make visually appealing what the document was updated using the cover color.
The main idea is to automatically update cover color based on the ...
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advancing dates in a 3-day syllabus
I am trying to adapt this advance date method for a 3-day syllabus without success.
The goal is to create a M-W-F class schedule. The method in the link above is for a two-day schedule. It takes the ...
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Adding clock-time at bottom left of every page
How can I add a time-stamp of the time of compilation of the latex document (day, and clock-time in the form of HH:MM:SS) at the bottom left corner of every page, below the contents of the document?
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Twice a week syllabus
I was trying to adapt the following code from three-times a week to two-times a week, unsuccessfully. Also, I want to change the date format so that it shows: Mon Jan 28. Any help appreciated.
\...
