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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-export-html-date-format-string
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I solved the problem by putting the following in the file to be exported:

#+DATE: [2013-05-21 Tue 14:45]

However, this means I have to remember to change the date every time I
export. Is there an easier way to do this?

Scott Randby

On 05/21/2013 01:49 PM, Scott Randby wrote:
> I'm having trouble customizing the variable
> org-export-html-date-format-string. Before I tried to customize it, I
> would get the date in the postamble when I exported to html:
> 
>   <p class="date">Created: 2013-05-21 Tue 12:44</p>
> 
> The original string for the variable is: %Y-%m-%dT%R%z
> 
> I don't want this string, so I changed it to %F%T%Z which didn't give
> any date when I exported. So I changed the string to %Y-%m-%d and still
> had no date after export. Changing back to the default string doesn't
> work either.
> 
> This seems like a bug. Here is what is in my init.el after customization:
> 
>  '(org-export-html-date-format-string "%Y-%m-%dT%R%z")
> 
>  '(org-html-postamble t)
> 
>  '(org-html-postamble-format (quote (("en" "<p class=\"author\">Author:
> %a </p> <p class=\"date\">Date: %d</p> <p class=\"creator\">%c</p>"))))
> 
> Here is the html of the postamble after export:
> 
>   <div id="postamble" class="status">
>   <p class="author">Author: Scott P. Randby </p>
>   <p class="date">Date: </p>
>   <p class="creator"><a
>   href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 24.2.1 (<a
>   href="http://orgmode.org">Org</a> mode 8.0.3)</p>
>   </div>
> 
> How do I get the date variable to work?
> 
> Scott Randby
>