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

[Henry Bennett]

You can find that dead link on the Internet Archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20170815180039/http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/tex/macros/

On Fri, 19 Sept 2025 at 21:38, <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:

> > \currentdate contains actually only a string preformatted by Therion
> according to the locale set on the system. It should be enough to set your
> date formatting on Windows.
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> It should be enough, although it does mean the same project on different
> devices is likely to produce differing outputs.  It had been my approach
> with Windows 10, which had a reasonable number of options, amongst them d
> Mmm yyyy, which is what I prefer.
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> Windows 11 has, for my locale, just two options, d/mm/yyyy and d/mm/yy.
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> I did consider using an example
> http://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/tex/macros/ (section 2) that we
> discussed in 2011.  That is now in 404! land and I did not keep a copy.
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> I’m an eternal tex novice and more recently an ai luddite.
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> Bruce
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