On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> 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.
>
LyX: you learn something every day.
Thanks Enrico for the info---I had no clue you could reformat dates from
within Lyx--alwyas used LaTeX packages
Cheers,
Stefano
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