how old are we toay

["Frans Goddijn" <frans@iaf.nl>]

Hello,

This is not really urgent: I was trying to see if I could get the current date (in dutch \huidigedatum) with oldstyle numbers. 

In my setup, \os{123} yields oldstyle numbers 123

As I expected, this didn't work: \huidigedatum[\os{dag},maand,\os{jaar}]

I then tried if the code I used to have for LaTeX happened to be plain TeX but apparantly it isn't. 

any pointers?

Below is the code I used to use in LaTeX:

%--------------Old style today----------------------------------%
\def\oldtoday{{\osfamily\number\day} \ifcase\month\or
  januari\or februari\or maart\or april\or mei\or juni\or juli\or
  augustus\or september\or oktober\or november\or december\fi
  \space {\osfamily\number\year}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%

% -------------Old style \now-----------------------------------%
% \now macro levert met \now de tijd in hh:mm
% \oldnow in oldstyle numbers
\newcount\hh \newcount\mm
\hh=\time \divide\hh by 60
\mm=\hh \multiply\mm by 60 \mm=-\mm
\advance\mm by \time
\def\now{\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi\number\mm}
%\def\oldnow{{\onumscfont\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi \number\mm}}
\def\oldnow{{\osfamily\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi \number\mm}}
%********************************************************************

Groet!

Frans

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