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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Re: [new exporter] latex-date-timestamp-format not adhering
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:37:04 +0100
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Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Andreas Leha writes:
>> And while I still think, that setting the #+LANGUAGE in org should
>> ideally be reflected in the export -- also for the date formatting -- I
>> found a solution to my problem that I use now: It does not use orgmode's
>> date and date-formatting facilities, but moves the work to LaTeX.  Thus, the
>> bad side is that it is backend specific.
>
> Well, you could bounce this via Babel to the shell, set LANG and run the
> date command with the appropriate format string and pull it back into
> org, perhaps as a macro.  That makes it not play well with pure Windows
> where there is no locale setting per command and no date command (unless
> you install Cygwin), but it isn't langage specific anymore.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I like the idea a lot and will follow it up,
I think.

Regards,
Andreas