Re: [NTG-context] date problem

I see. But this is not working too. Following your suggestion I now get: \edef\thisdate{\ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, , year","\currentlanguage")}}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thisdate} *** > macro:->\labeltext {march} 20 2013 The problem is essentially the same. I am most unhappy with this, because fixing the current date in some macro shouldn't be impossible. And why all those extra ,s in month, ,day, , year? I would suggest that besides \currentdate one should be able to also use \currentdate[month][day][year][language], \currentdate[day][mont][year][language],etc. And then be able to store the expansion in a macro. Is it possible to incorporate this in the next beta? By the way, the \time and \currenttime pose the same problem, here even \rawtime seems nonexistent. Hans van der Meer On 20 mrt. 2013, at 15:11, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 20.03.2013 um 14:52 schrieb Meer H. van der :

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One step further, thanks. But why does \edef\thedate{\rawdate[]}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thedate} result in ** > macro:->unknown march 2013 instead of 20 march 2013?

Provide a *working* minimal example because when I run this example

\starttext \rawdate[] \stoptext

I get “march unknown, 2013” as output.

When I use now (instead of \currentlanguage you can also use a language tag, e.g. "nl")

\starttext \ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, , year","\currentlanguage")} \stoptext

I get as output “March 20 2013”. The problem with \rawdate is that no language is passed and context doesn’t convert the labels for the month/years and also the day results in a default string, i.e. it produces the “unknown” string.

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