* Display current date/time
@ 2014-03-25 9:54 Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-25 10:15 ` Thibaut Verron
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2014-03-25 9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GNU Emacs users list
Hello list,
is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
TIA,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University
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* Re: Display current date/time
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@ 2014-03-25 10:10 ` Damien Wyart
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From: Damien Wyart @ 2014-03-25 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> in gnu.emacs.help:
> is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
> in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
> date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
You can find several solutions there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/251908/how-can-i-insert-current-date-and-time-into-a-file-using-emacs
(to insert in the current buffer, but it is easy to adapt them for the
echo area).
--
DW
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* Re: Display current date/time
2014-03-25 9:54 Marcin Borkowski
@ 2014-03-25 10:15 ` Thibaut Verron
2014-03-25 12:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-03-25 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Thibaut Verron @ 2014-03-25 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>
> Hello list,
>
> is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
> in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
> date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
>
> TIA,
>
I don't know of any existing function for that, but you can use a simple
definition like:
(defun today ()
(interactive)
(message (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %T")))
Thibaut
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* Re: Display current date/time
2014-03-25 9:54 Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-25 10:15 ` Thibaut Verron
@ 2014-03-25 12:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-03-25 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2014-03-25 12:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> Hello list,
>
> is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
> in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
> date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
>
> TIA,
You can also use (display-time-mode 1) in your init file to have it
always in the mode line.
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* Re: Display current date/time
2014-03-25 9:54 Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-25 10:15 ` Thibaut Verron
2014-03-25 12:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2014-03-25 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-03-25 21:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
> in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
> date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
M-! date RET
It's not M-x but close enough, I think,
Stefan
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* Re: Display current date/time
@ 2014-03-27 0:35 Tak Kunihiro
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From: Tak Kunihiro @ 2014-03-27 0:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mbork, help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: tkk
I use yasnippet to see current date/time.
Snippets with key `today/now' insert date/time in current buffer.
# name: (today)
# key: today
# --
`(format-time-string "%B %e, %Y (%a)" (current-time))`
# name: (now)
# key: now
# --
`(format-time-string "%T %Z" (current-time))`
> Hello list,
>
> is there an (interactive) function to display current date and/or time
> in the echo area? I'd like to be able to say M-x today and see today's
> date, for instance, without having to fire up the calendar.
>
> TIA,
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