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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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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