Will Parsons writes:
> 
> Will Parsons wrote:
> > In a document I'm writing, I would like to print the date of the last
> > edit in the title page.  I've discovered [Insert => Date], which looks
> > like it might be what I want (does it update when I save the document
> > again?), but the format is "07/16/14", which is a common format for
> > North America (which is where I am), but I would prefer a different
> > format, preferably "14 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
> > "2014-07-14", but I can't figure out how to adjust this.  Is this
> > configurable via LyX, or do I have to do some LaTeX magic?
> 
> Of course, what I meant was '"16 June 2014", or even the ISO standard
> "2014-07-16"', (which I guess illustrates that even *I* find the
> format "07/16/14" confusing, used to it though I am...

The format of the date is fully configurable through conversion specifiers in
Tools->Preferences->Output->General->Date format.
The default conversion spec is %x, which gives the locale's representation.
If you are on linux, you can access the conversion specifiers through
"man strftime", otherwise you can read them online at
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strftime.html

In your case, you want either "%e %b %Y" or "%Y-%m-%d".

-- 
Enrico

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