Questions tagged [datetime2]
The `datetime2` package provides commands for formatting dates, times and time zones and redefines `\today` to use the same formatting style.
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Changed hyperxmp or hyperref causing error with pdfdate={\today}
The following used to be OK. With the most recent release of hyperxmp, it no longer does, giving error:
./hypersetup-bug.tex:9: Argument of \hyxmp@pdf@to@xmp@date has an extra }.
<inserted text> ...
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Abbreviations of Weeknames in German
This is pretty straight-forward.
I have finally managed to abbreviate weeknames in “British”, i.e. en-GB. (What I need is ngerman)
But, as I'm working on a German document, I need the date format ...
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typesetting \today in local numeric and textual form
The datetime2 docs are hard to read. I just want to typeset \today's date, both numerically and textually, in the correct way, depending on the babel language setting.
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{...
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A professional stamp in relief
Related to these previous my questions A special annulment (i.e., cancellation) of a stamp and Date time in two rows in Italian format and time zone I have created another MWE to have some different ...
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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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Get HH:MM:SS from datetime2 by giving seconds [duplicate]
I search a command that give formated time like HH:MM:SS when I give just seconds.
As example, if the search command is \formatetime{}, it should give the following result:
\formatetime{50} % should ...
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Date without year
I would like the dates language within a document controlled by package. It seems that datetime2 is the only contemporary package doing this stuff. However, occasionally I need only to display day ...
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Localization for \date command
How can I apply localization for the \date command? For now it seems to just display an arbitrary string.
\documentclass{article}
\author{me}
\date{bla bla bla}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{...
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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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Year calculations with datetime2 and pgfkeys
I would like to add years to a given date (without having to care about leapyears).
I should be able to define the date via pgfkeys and after that add years to this date.
For example 01.01.2020 -> +...
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datetime2: future dates in a specific (ad hoc) format
I've seen these posts ...
Changing date format in datetime2
latex date calculations with datetime2 and ddmm format
... and in theory I ought to be knowing what to do, yet... I am not. Instead... I'm ...
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How could work `\spanishdatedel` with datetime2 package
I'm asking if is possible to use \spanishdatedel commmand of babel-spanish package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english,spanish]{babel}
\spanishdatedel
\usepackage{datetime2}
\DTMsetup{...
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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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datetime2 - Display Daterange
Is it possible to display a daterange with datetime2 like in isodate?
isodate automatically calculates the correct difference and displays the correct range.
However, datetime2 has the correct display....
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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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Warning: Date-Time Language Module `nynorsk' not installed
I am working through the warnings and errors of a project of mine. One error that has been bugging me is in regards to the datetime2 package. The following code
\documentclass[margin=1mm]{standalone}...
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“Hidden text” inflates `widthof`
French letters call for a heading stating place and date, which I put in \letterlieudate, which I put in a minipage. Requirement: that the minipage's width be just big enough so that \letterlieudate ...
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Command \nr already defined (datetime2 and nccmath incompatibility)
It seems that the datetime2 and the nccmath packages are incompatible when I load the [useregional] option in the first (I get command \nr already defined).
I used a solution for reducing spacing ...
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Change date style when using regional settings in datetime2
I can't seem to change datetime2's settings when using the option useregional to display the date in the language given to babel
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[italian]{...
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Extract year, month, day from datetime2
I have made a command that looks like this:
\newcommand*{\numdash}{\,--\,}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\dateRange}{mmmmmm}
{
\str_case:nnF { #1 }
{
{#4} {
...
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Using the datetime2 package, how do we individually retrieve each of yyyy, yy, mm, dd, mmm, ddd, hhmm, hhmmss, etc.?
Let's say it's now 2019-07-21-082935.
If I'm using the datetime2 package, what commands do I use to individually retrieve each of "2019", "19", "07", "7", "JUL", "July", "21", "SUN", "Sun", "Sunday", ...
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mixing date formats in the same document
I am trying to make dates in my CV uniform so I thought of using the datetime2 package. The problem is that sometime I have a full date, sometimes the year and the month, and sometimes only the month. ...
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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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datetime2: Assuming missing inputs of minutes or seconds to be zero
I would like to make the following document print output of 07:00 PM.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[calc,english]{datetime2}
\DTMnewtimestyle{ampm}{%
% \DTMdisplaytime{<hh>}{<mm>}...
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Combine datetime2 and csvsimple
How can I make the following code compile:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\usepackage{datetime2}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{test.csv}
a,b
2019,00:00:00
2019,...
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Changing date format in datetime2
Using the datetime2 package, how do I tell \today to display the date in the format: 'Fri, March 1, 2019'?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datetime2}
\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}
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Calculating time spans with datetime2
With datetime2, is there a way to calculate an end time from a start time if I have the duration in minutes? Something like
\newcommand*\timespan{90}
\newcommand*\starttime{13:45:00}
\DTMtime{\...
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datetime2: Formatting the time
How can I get an output of 09:00 AM instead of 9am?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[en-GB]{datetime2}
\begin{document}
\DTMtime{09:00:00}
The desired output is ``09:00 AM"
\end{document}
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How to create user defined time table
I have to create a three years work plane, but it still only shows me 4 months,
How do I need to do?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{parskip}
\...
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datetime2: scientific english format
I'd like to typeset dates with the datetime2 package in English in the format commonly used in scientific or technical writing, that is:
time in 24-hour format;
dates in the format: "29 October 2018" ...
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Remove the leading zero from date
I like to print dates formatted in this way: 6 October 2018. Usually, I just type the date by hand. But I tried to set things up so that \today would format dates the way I like. I must have only ...
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latex date calculations with datetime2 and ddmm format
I've been trying to to display dates in the format "dd"/"mm" (months preferably roman letters) - however I can't find a single style that supports this requirement. Additionally I'm trying to ...
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How to automatically set CreationDate on PDF
When compiling a document using pdflatex one can set the PDF CreationDate of the document using \pdfinfo{...}. I would like to automatically set this to the date supplied to \date{...} in the document....
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How to get the datetime2 package to display dates in South African format: “1 April 2018”
By default Latex formats the date as mmm d, yyyy, i.e. in the nonsensical middle endian format.
I would like to display it as d Mmm yyyy, e.g. 1 April 2018.
I've gone through the datetime2 ...
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datetime2 does not respect polyglossia language settings (using lualatex)
datetime2 does not automatically deduces the correct language from the polyglossia settings. If you set the date style by hand, it works. (datetime2-german is installed.)
I'm using lualatex (this ...
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Use output of gitinfo2 package with datetime2 commands
The gitinfo2 package provides the command \gitAuthorDate which returns the date of the current commit in ISO format, e.g., 2018-02-22.
I would like to use this date with a different format within in ...
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How to specify a date and make calculations with it in datetime2?
I want to specify a date (and give it a name) in a master header TEX-file, then refer to that date in several independent daughter files. As this doesn't even work within a single file, this ...
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\DTMsavedate calculation does not work with \DTMusedate
I would like to calculate a new date based on a previous one with \DTMusedate, but I got an error from \@dtm@parsedate.
Here's a sample :
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[calc]{...
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datetime2: define and explicitely use date formats
As datetime is superseded by datetime2, I'm struggling hard to achieve the following using the new package:
In an English document, I would like to show the current date (\today) once like this 20th ...
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Input a date to `datetime2` in a format different than iso
Having a date stored in a macro:
\def\Mydate{20-12-2017}
I would like to do some calculations (advance days/months) using datetime2. If \Mydate stores the date in yyyy-mm-dd I won't have issues, but ...
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Listing Schedules By Week and by Specific Dates Using `datetime`
I am using datetime to automatically generate a schedule. The MWE at the moment allows me to list weeks (and dates of the beginning and the end of each weak). But I would like to combine this with ...
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How to calculate previous month from \today using datetime2?
Is is possible to use datetime2 to calculate the previous month from \today?
(Alternatively another package).
I've found some solutions that use negative deduction of days, but that would cause ...
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store a date with datetime2 and use it with termcal
I am making a class syllabus using the "termcal" package and would like to store the starting date for the first class so I can use it for different elements of the syllabus. I am currently trying to ...
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Pdflatex fails when using datetime package
I have been debugging a class that uses the datetime package. It seems the offending statement is a \RequirePackage{datetime}.
It seems that including the datetime package is causing pdflatex to fail....
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Titling package and date formatting
I am using the titling package the resuse the defined date etc. using a plain \thedate command. However the date format is not what I need because of different type of localization.
My first shot was ...
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datetime2 — Warnings when using showyear setting
With the following MWE, I get two warnings:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[en-US]{datetime2}
\begin{document}
\DTMlangsetup{showyear=false}
\DTMdate{2017-03-13}
\DTMlangsetup{showyear=true}
\...
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datetime2 doesn't expand months in \DTMDisplaydate
I want to use strings for dates in my document that can be formatted either as ISO or German later on.
I looked at isodate datetime and datetime2 most promising seemed to be the latest, but the ...
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Date format changed by loading pdfcomment package
It seems by loading the pdfcomment package, the date format is implicitly changed to YYYY-MM-DD.
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[...
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Datetime2 package example usage for new era definition
Background
I want to create a timeline that is based on years, but I don't want to handle a mix of negative and positive numbers (i.e. BC/AD which gives us this year as 2016 and 4032 years ago is ...
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Get full iso format date and time with colon and “T” separator
When I use iso style with datetime2 package, I exepect to get the full date format with T separator between date and time and colon “:” between hours, minutes, and seconds.
I expect someting like ...
