From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: time/date in metafun/metapost
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011004180217.0264e088@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01100122532300.00939@levana>
At 10:53 PM 10/1/2001 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Hi out there. It is getting late, but I hope my metapost problem is not
>there because I cannot think at this time anymore...
>
>So, I have the following code:
>% output=pdf
>\starttext
>\startMPcode
>show year;
>show month;
>show day;
>show time;
>\stopMPcode
>\stoptext
>
>The time displayed is the time of the generated format. How do I get the
>current time? (well, the time at which the job is run.) Do I have to use
>context to pass the current time etc. thru variables?
\startMPcode
mytime := \the\normaltime ;
myyear := \the\normalyear ;
....
enz
Hans
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2001-10-01 20:53 Patrick Gundlach
2001-10-04 16:03 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2001-10-12 18:29 ` Patrick Gundlach
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