Am 20.03.2013 um 15:29 schrieb "Meer H. van der" <h.vanderm...@uva.nl>:
> I see. But this is not working too. Following your suggestion I now get:
> \edef\thisdate{\ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, ,
> year","\currentlanguage")}}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thisdate}
> *** > macro:->\labeltext {march} 20 2013
> The problem is essentially the same.
\starttext
\writestatus{***}{\cldcontext{os.date("\letterpercent Y\space\letterpercent
m\space\letterpercent d")}}
\stoptext
> I am most unhappy with this, because fixing the current date in some macro
> shouldn't be impossible.
\starttext
\writestatus{***}{\number\normalyear \space \number\normalmonth \space
\number\normalday}
\stoptext
> And why all those extra ,s in month, ,day, , year?
This should be “month,space,day,space,year”, “space” in this list is a keywords
to add a space between the entries.
> I would suggest that besides \currentdate one should be able to also use
> \currentdate[month][day][year][language],
> \currentdate[day][mont][year][language],etc. And then be able to store the
> expansion in a macro. Is it possible to incorporate this in the next beta?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date
Wolfgang
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