From: Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: What is the best way to set #+DATE to today's date?
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:12:07 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24mkct6bs.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86egjg3wx8.fsf@example.com>
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Thanks Fabrice, very helpful.
A second patch is attached.
All the best,
Tom
Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org> writes:
>> Doesn't it get its information from a timestamp in #+DATE?
>>
>>> I think you missed out explaining what {{{time(FORMAT)}}} does.
>
> You might be interested by `date', `time' and `modification-time',
> depending on what you want to achieve. I've put some examples in my
> Org-macros project about those:
>
> https://github.com/fniessen/org-macros
>
> Best regards,
> Fabrice
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From cb30697627afacc8950ef85b839f47d48371f39b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tsdye <tsd@tsdye.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:08:34 -1000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] More date and time macro edits
---
doc/org.texi | 17 ++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index b5ababb..30c1987 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -10216,18 +10216,21 @@ export.
@item @{@{@{date@}@}@}
@itemx @{@{@{date(@var{FORMAT})@}@}@}
-@itemx @{@{@{time(@var{FORMAT})@}@}@}
@cindex date, macro
-@cindex time, macro
-These macros refer to information associated with the @code{#+DATE} keyword.
-The @var{FORMAT} argument, which is optional for the @{@{@{date@}@}@} macro,
-should be a format string understood by @code{format-time-string}. Note that
-it will only be used if @code{#+DATE} is a single timestamp.
+This macro refers to information associated with the @code{#+DATE} keyword.
+The optional @var{FORMAT} argument should be a format string understood by
+@code{format-time-string}. Note that it will only be used if @code{#+DATE}
+is a single timestamp.
+@itemx @{@{@{time(@var{FORMAT})@}@}@}
@itemx @{@{@{modification-time(@var{FORMAT})@}@}@}
@cindex modification time, macro
+@cindex time, macro
-This macro refers to the modification time of the file being exported.
+These macros refer to the current date and time when the document is being
+exported and to the modification time of the file being exported,
+respectively. The @var{FORMAT} argument should be a format string understood
+by @code{format-time-string}.
@item @{@{@{input-file@}@}@}
@cindex input file, macro
--
2.4.5
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Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 16:33 What is the best way to set #+DATE to today's date? Kaushal
2015-08-06 16:44 ` Rasmus
2015-08-06 17:00 ` Kaushal
2015-08-06 17:41 ` Rasmus
2015-08-06 18:18 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-06 19:25 ` Kaushal
2015-08-06 19:45 ` Kaushal
2015-08-06 19:50 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-06 19:58 ` Kaushal
2015-08-06 20:51 ` [PATCH] " Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-06 21:22 ` Kaushal
2015-08-06 21:48 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-06 21:54 ` Fabrice Niessen
2015-08-06 22:12 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2015-08-07 8:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-07 14:01 ` Kaushal
2015-08-07 14:20 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-07 14:52 ` Kaushal
2015-08-11 18:40 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-11 22:59 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-07 4:31 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-06 18:12 ` Nick Dokos
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