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

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