Many thanks - it was \currenttime that I hadn't located (on an obviously inefficient search). That works nicely.
Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 12:14, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am 20.06.2025 um 12:37 schrieb John Was: > > I have figured out how to place a date stamp on my PDFs (outside of the > > printable area bounded by crop marks) but I would ideally like to > > include the time of processing as well. I don't see anything like the > > plain TeX primitive \time (and when out of curiosity I tried '\the\time' > > this returned a mysterious number - today it is '691' - which doesn't > > seem relevant). > > Use \currenttime, the following example shows also how to use the result > of the \time command. > > \starttext > > Current time: \currenttime > > \blank > > At the moment > \the\numexpr\time/60\relax\space > hours and > \the\numexpr\time;60\relax\space > minutes have passed since midnight. > > \blank > > At the moment > \the\time\space > minutes have passed since midnight. > > \blank > > \calculatecurrenttime % set values for the time commands > > At the moment > \currenthour\space > hours, > \currentminute\space > minutes and > \currentsecond\space > seconds have passed since midnight. > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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