Hi Nicolas,
thanks for looking into this.
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not convinced by this variable. Back-ends are usually so much
> different that a global variable aiming at formatting a date timestamp
> in any of them doesn't sound very useful.
>
> Though it may be the job of back-ends to provide such a variable
> variable, whenever it makes sense.
Yes, I think it's the job of backends.
> Another option would be to allow to specify an arbitrary timestamp as
> a second, optional, argument to {{{time(...)}}} macro. One could then
> use:
>
> #+DATE: {{{time(%Y-%m-%d,<2013-01-06 Sun>)}}}
I'm all for allowing macros in "document info" keywords
(i.e. "#+title:" "#+author:" "#+email:" "#+date) though
I'm not sure if it makes sense for other keywords than
for "#+date", and maybe allowing macro here just for
this use-case is to liberal.
Best,
--
Bastien
