On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:13:33AM -0700, Bruce Wolk wrote:
> How does one change the location and format of the date in the letter
> document class. It mysteriously appears as "26th August 2001" two lines
> below the return address. I would like to move it and have it read
> "August 26, 2001." I can find no reference to this in any of the
> documentation. I looked in the letter.lyx, letter.layout, and the
> various .inc files and could find no place that references the date. I
> assume it somehow arrives via the LaTeX document class, but I have no
> idea how to modify that.
Change the language of the document to american.
Another possibility, is to put \Date{<the date>} in latex mode at the top of
the document (Why isn't there a date layout in the letter class ???)