On Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020 at 17:18, Emanuel Berg via "General discussions about Org-mode." wrote: > {{{date()}}} works as does {{{date(%D)}}} in a sense, > only the format string doesn't seem to influence the > output, which is "September 16, 2020".
The documentation that you have in your post says that this works only if the actual date given in the #+DATE directive is a single timestamp. So, what did you specify there? If you give a time stamp, like [2020-09-16 Wed], it works fine for me. If you have something else, e.g. September 16, 2020, the format string is ignored. In any case, you may wish to use the {{{time(FORMAT)}}} macro instead as this does not depend on the date you have specified explicitly. And, in practice, I actually use {{{modification-time(FORMAT)}}}. In both of these cases, you need to specify the format. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.7-725-g7bc18e