Inserting date

Inserting date

[Armando Martins]

Hello!

Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).

Thanks
Armando Martins

Re: Inserting date

[B. T. Raven]

Armando Martins wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
> please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
> 
> Thanks
> Armando Martins
> 
>

If you evaluate this:

(global-set-key "\C-cid" (lambda() (interactive) (insert 
(format-time-string "%a %Y-%m-%d - %l:%M %p"))))

then you can use that key combo to insert day date - time. Strip out 
some of the formating specs if you don't need them or change their order 
if you like.

Ed

RE: Inserting date

[Drew Adams]

> > Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
> > please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-cid" (lambda() (interactive) (insert 
> (format-time-string "%a %Y-%m-%d - %l:%M %p"))))
> 
> then you can use that key combo to insert day date - time. Strip out 
> some of the formating specs if you don't need them or change 
> their order if you like.

These might help too (just some Emacs wiki search results for "insert date"):

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertingTodaysDate
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertAnyDate
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertDate

Re: Inserting date

[Ken Goldman]

If you want to insert the current date, how about
M-x insert-date?

If you want to insert, e.g., a time stamp for the last time a file was 
written, look at the 'time-stamp' features.

Armando Martins wrote:
> 
> Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file, 
> please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).