The typical solution to this is to first use wikify the macro or variable before setting
<$wikify name=date text="""<<now>>""> ... button and action widget use <<date>> as the value not <<now>> </$wikify> Regards Tones On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 at 07:11:52 UTC+11 David Gifford wrote: > > Hi all > > I was so pleased when I created this: > > - > > https://giffmex.org/gifts/documenting.tw.html#Insert%20the%20current%20time%20as%20text > > But now I realize it just inserts a macro that changes every time I update > the tiddler. > > Is there a way to stamp the actual date and/or time as TEXT, so that the > time does not update? Thinking of journaling, marking task start and end > time, etc. Would be nice to have an editortoolbar that does this. I tried > TiddlyTime but it does what the above link does, pasts a macro. I don't see > that the other links in the toolmap do such a thing. > > Blessings! And thanks in advance. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/98edc2b0-4846-472f-9a46-f080a235f5a7n%40googlegroups.com.
