From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display current date/time Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:10:33 +0100 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <53315619$0$2125$426a34cc@news.free.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395742515 26521 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 10:15:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:15:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 11:15:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSOO7-0004E0-EK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:15:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSOO6-0002bf-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:15:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp2-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Mar 2014 11:10:33 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1395742233 news-4.free.fr 2125 213.41.244.197:39898 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204469 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96739 Archived-At: * Marcin Borkowski 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