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From: Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \date format according to ISO 8601
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:18:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110201171820.38c7432e@glyph> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D47FEE1.5080302@gmx.de>

On 2011-02-01 Stefan Müller <warrence.stm@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wouldn't like the idea of displaying \date in ISO 8601 format. I'd 
> rather prefer the human-readable version. The ISO 8601 is a standard for 
> "exchange of date and time-related data" [1], not for text documents 
> made for humans to read.
> 
> How to get what you want is explained here [2], I think. HTH.

No, not really. \currentdate [year, –, mm, –, dd] gives me the date in
ISO 8601 format. To force consistency it makes sense to specify the date
format in a *global* setup like

>> \setupdate [format={year, –, mm, –, dd}]

to avoid ugly constructions like

\def\Today{\currentdate [year, –, mm, –, dd]}


Regards
Marco


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31 23:03 Marco
2011-02-01 12:38 ` Stefan Müller
2011-02-01 16:18   ` Marco [this message]
2011-02-01 17:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-01 17:38   ` Marco
2011-02-01 17:42     ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-01 23:37       ` Marco

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