From: "H. van der Meer" <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: ConTeXt NTG <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: date handling maltreated?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:26:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F11D35EC-BE64-41C8-8F28-B8B93104D5A4@uva.nl> (raw)
Trying to do some date and time processing myself, I ran into problems caused by ConTeXt makeing it incompatibel with the original plain TeX itself!
In the TeX-book, Appendix B one finds
<citation>
(Some parameters are set by TeX itself as it runs, so it is inappropriate to initialize them: \time, \day, \month, and year are established at the beginning of a job; ..
</citation>
Now the results in ConTeXT with a minimal example, put into the log for easier copying into the mail:
\starttext
\writestatus{}{\meaning\date -> \date}
\writestatus{}{\meaning\day -> \the\day}
\writestatus{}{\meaning\month -> \month WHY NOT monthname?}
\writestatus{}{\meaning\year -> \the\year}
\writestatus{}{\meaning\time -> \the\time}
\stoptext
Result:
> \time-> \time
> \protected macro:->\dodoubleempty \syst_converters_date -> \date
> \day-> 20
> macro:#1->\ctxcommand {monthname(#1)}-> \labeltext {unknown}RROR
> \year-> 2013
> \time-> 982
I strongly ask that ConTeXt abstains from changing the definition of \month and reverts to the exact result as given by plain TeX, i.e. a number in the range [1-12]. Because the change makes it impossible to do calculations on the month.
Hans van der Meer
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next reply other threads:[~2013-03-20 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 15:26 H. van der Meer [this message]
2013-03-20 15:27 ` Meer H. van der
2013-03-20 20:34 ` Hans Hagen
2013-03-20 15:40 H. van der Meer
2013-03-20 15:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-03-20 16:26 ` Meer H. van der
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