Re: Date format when exporting to LaTeX?

[Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>]

On 2013-07-01 17:46, Rasmus wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
>> I recently upgraded from 7.8.03 to current master (actually
>> release_8.0.3-299-g1d606c0) and now when I export to LaTeX, the following:
>>
>>    #+DATE: %Y-%m-%d
>>
>> no longer causes the date to be the current date in ISO 8601 format.  It
>> now simply prints "%Y-%m-%d".
>>
>> I tried:
>>
>>    #+DATE: {{{date(%Y-%m-%d)}}}
> 
> This also doesn't work for, but I've never used it before.  But it
> should be {{{time(.)}}} cf.
>        
>     http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?h=maint

I tried:

   #+DATE: {{{time(%Y-%m-%d)}}}

and that did work.  Thank you!

Unfortunately this does not work quite right with org-mode 7.8.03, so
I'll have to make sure everyone I collaborate with upgrades their
org-mode.  :(

> 
>> but got "Circular macro expansion: date".  I also tried:
>>
>>    #+BIND: org-export-date-timestamp-format "%Y-%m-%d"
> 
> This works for me in Org-mode version 8.0.3
> (release_8.0.3-309-gabacff).  Is the problem still persistent after
> trying from emacs -q or after trying M-x org-reload?
> 
> 
> #+BIND: org-export-date-timestamp-format "%Y-%m-%d"
> #+DATE: <2013-07-01 Mon>
> 
> * test
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq org-export-date-timestamp-format "%B %e, %Y")
> (set (make-local-variable 'org-export-allow-bind-keywords) t)
> #+end_src

This works for me too, but:

  * I must provide a date.  If I don't have that #+DATE line then the
    LaTeX exporter uses \today, and that ignores
    org-export-date-timestamp-format.  I don't want to have to specify
    a date; I want it to use today's date.  (The {{{time()}}} macro
    works well for this, but I was unaware of its existence until now.)

  * org-export-allow-bind-keywords must be true.  Adding it as a
    file-local variable is not an acceptable solution in my
    circumstance.

    I didn't have to set this variable when I was using 7.8.03 --
    org-mode simply asked me (once) if it was OK to bind the
    variables.  I miss that behavior.

Thanks again for letting me know about {{{time(.)}}}.

-Richard