Hi John (and Jonathan),
This may be overkill for your needs, but this kind of customization is
easy to do with a software application called TextExpander from
SmileOnMyMac. TextExpander allows you to define your own custom
snippets that get expanded, optionally with the format and placement
you want. For example, since the default samples already include a
snippet definition, "ddate" (date with an extra leading "d") that
would insert the current date in the format: November 16, 2010, and a
"ttime" (time with an extra leading "t") that inserts time as 2:41 PM,
I decided to create a new snippet with assigned name "dtstamp" (for
date and time stamp), that has exactly the format you specified
(leading day of week, and time using a 24 hour clock). It took me
less than a minute with the TextExpander Preferences pane (on my older
version of this software) to create the snippet definition by going to
the menu button beyond the content text area for snippets and
selecting the formats I wanted under the date and time options. You
even have date and time math options -- so if you're writing somebody
to give their warranty period and want to automatically insert the
expiration date for a fixed number of months or years from now, you
can define a snippet that will include that calculation.
I use the TextExpander Touch app more on my iPod Touch, especially
before Bluetooth keyboards were supported, and extensive typing on the
virtual keyboard was more of an issue. While you don't need to have
TextExpander on your computer to use it on your iPhone or iPod Touch,
if you do have the Mac version of TextExpander (with its expanded
capabilities), you can sync its definitions to the iPhone or iPod Touch.
I've just checked that my snippet definition for "dtstamp" works on
the iPod Touch:
%A, %B %e, %Y, %1H:%M
The TextExpander definitions will work in any app -- so if I wanted to
type this in Pages, or mail, I could have the formatted date/time
stamp show up each time I typed the string.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 15, 2010, John Sanfilippo wrote:
Jon,
Thanks for replying.
I'd want a date/time stamp like this:
Monday, November 15, 2010, 14:41
Note the 24 hour clock.
I looked at date and time and text formats.
js
On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
Well, I don't believe there is a built in function for that, but I
believe a one could quickly set up an automation, and then enable it
as a text function to work in all standard text input fields. Would
you want the standard Ddate as specified in the Internationalization,
or a special format. It is quite amazing all the diffferent styles
of dates that are available in the International section of system
preferences.
Jon
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