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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using header data in document
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:34:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuvxrazg.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87363hsqbs.fsf@ebih.ebihd

On Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020 at 17:18, Emanuel Berg via "General discussions about Org-mode." wrote:
> {{{date()}}} works as does {{{date(%D)}}} in a sense,
> only the format string doesn't seem to influence the
> output, which is "September 16, 2020".

The documentation that you have in your post says that this works only
if the actual date given in the #+DATE directive is a single
timestamp.  So, what did you specify there?  If you give a time stamp,
like [2020-09-16 Wed], it works fine for me.  If you have something
else, e.g. September 16, 2020, the format string is ignored.

In any case, you may wish to use the {{{time(FORMAT)}}} macro instead as
this does not depend on the date you have specified explicitly. And, in
practice, I actually use {{{modification-time(FORMAT)}}}.  In both of
these cases, you need to specify the format.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.7-725-g7bc18e


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 21:03 using header data in document Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-15 21:41 ` Corwin Brust
2020-09-15 22:08   ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 14:35     ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-16 15:18       ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 15:34         ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2020-09-16 15:56           ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-16 16:02             ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-16 17:14               ` Emanuel Berg via General discussions about Org-mode.
2020-09-17 12:29                 ` Eric S Fraga

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