[Therion] Is it possible to reformat output of currentdate tex variable

[Bill Gee]

I also have an interest in this.  I have been using these TeX statements 
in thconfig:

       \the\legendtextsize\ Map generated at \the\time 
\the\currentdate\medskip
       \the\legendtextsize\ Therion version \the\thversion

Which results in a date output that looks like this:

	Map generated at 51009/04/25

I am using Linux - Fedora 42.  It would be nice to show the date in a 
more readable format.

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Bill Gee

On 9/18/25 21:56, bruce at tomo.co.nz wrote:
> I have been using /currentdate to identify in an exported pdf map header 
> when the map was compiled.
> 
>      \edef\tmp{\the\thversion} \ifx\tmp\empty \else  %only write version 
> and date if version is not empty
> 
>        {\the\legendtextsize\si\the\thversiontitleA: 
> \ss\the\thversiontitleB \ss\the\thversion}
> 
>        {\the\legendtextsize\si\the\datetitle \si\the\currentdate\par}
> 
>      \fi
> 
> It takes the system date and format as input.  So I was using Windows 10 
> OS settings to format the date how I preferred it, in the case, d Mmm YYYY.
> 
> Seems that Windows 11, my new OS does not have the ability to format the 
> system date in manner(s) that I find useful.
> 
> Is there a way for Therion to take the date provided by the OS and 
> reformat it?
> 
> Think I recall someone did offer up something a little cumbersome, but 
> it escapes me just now.  Anyway, perhaps there is a better way today?
> 
> (Run Therion in a Win10 VM?)
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
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