From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert Todays Date Plus Ten Days
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:48:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq4bgd5h.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.11407.1350861900.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Esben Stien's message of "Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:53:24 +0200")
Hi Esben,
I do it like that:
(defun my-insert-date (&optional arg)
"Insert current date at point. With prefix arg, add that many days."
(interactive "*P")
(insert
(format-time-string
"%Y_%m_%d"
(time-add
(days-to-time
(if arg
(prefix-numeric-value arg)
0))
(current-time)))))
Michael.
> I'm using this to insert todays date:
>
> ;;insert current date in ISO format,timestamp
> (defun insert-date (prefix)
> "Insert the current date. With prefix-argument, use ISO format. With
> two prefix arguments, write out the day and month name."
> (interactive "P")
> (let ((format (cond
> ;; ((not prefix) "%d.%m.%Y")
> ((not prefix) "%Y-%m-%d")
> ((equal prefix '(4)) "%Y-%m-%d")
> ((equal prefix '(16)) "%A, %d. %B %Y")))
> (system-time-locale "nb_NO"))
> (insert (format-time-string format))))
>
> , but I'm unsure how I can insert the date in 10 days.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to do arithmetic on
> format-time-string?;).
>
> Any pointers as to how I can do this?.
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2012-10-22 7:48 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2012-10-22 17:09 ` Insert Todays Date Plus Ten Days Esben Stien
2012-10-21 23:53 Esben Stien
2012-10-21 23:34 ` Drew Adams
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