Am 20.03.2013 um 15:29 schrieb "Meer H. van der" <h.vanderm...@uva.nl>:
> I see. But this is not working too. Following your suggestion I now get: > \edef\thisdate{\ctxcommand{currentdate("month, ,day, , > year","\currentlanguage")}}\writestatus{***}{\meaning\thisdate} > *** > macro:->\labeltext {march} 20 2013 > The problem is essentially the same. \starttext \writestatus{***}{\cldcontext{os.date("\letterpercent Y\space\letterpercent m\space\letterpercent d")}} \stoptext > I am most unhappy with this, because fixing the current date in some macro > shouldn't be impossible. \starttext \writestatus{***}{\number\normalyear \space \number\normalmonth \space \number\normalday} \stoptext > And why all those extra ,s in month, ,day, , year? This should be “month,space,day,space,year”, “space” in this list is a keywords to add a space between the entries. > I would suggest that besides \currentdate one should be able to also use > \currentdate[month][day][year][language], > \currentdate[day][mont][year][language],etc. And then be able to store the > expansion in a macro. Is it possible to incorporate this in the next beta? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/date Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________