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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: date problem
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:50:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E7F504B9-C67A-44D5-AFC1-A9BA94E5EA6B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C45DD42-66CC-44D5-97F0-E008E1834D96@uva.nl>


Am 20.03.2013 um 15:29 schrieb "Meer H. van der" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>:

> I see. But this is not working too. Following your suggestion I now get:
>  \edef\thisdate{\ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, , year","\currentlanguage")}}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thisdate}
> ***             > macro:->\labeltext {march} 20 2013
> The problem is essentially the same.

\starttext
\writestatus{***}{\cldcontext{os.date("\letterpercent Y\space\letterpercent m\space\letterpercent d")}}
\stoptext

> I am most unhappy with this, because fixing the current date in some macro shouldn't be impossible. 

\starttext
\writestatus{***}{\number\normalyear \space \number\normalmonth \space \number\normalday}
\stoptext

> And why all those extra ,s in month, ,day, , year?

This should be “month,space,day,space,year”, “space” in this list is a keywords to add a space between the entries.

> I would suggest that besides \currentdate one should be able to also use \currentdate[month][day][year][language], \currentdate[day][mont][year][language],etc. And then be able to store the expansion in a macro. Is it possible to incorporate this in the next beta?

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date

Wolfgang
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 13:26 H. van der Meer
2013-03-20 13:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-03-20 13:52   ` Meer H. van der
2013-03-20 14:11     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-03-20 14:29       ` Meer H. van der
2013-03-20 14:50         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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