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). 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>
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
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.lists@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
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