Re: using header data in document

[Emanuel Berg]

Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020 at 00:08, Emanuel Berg via
> "General discussions about Org-mode." wrote:
>
>> Hm, date? Maybe that can be used to do a line like
>> the LaTeX's
>>
>>   Last modified: \today
>>
>> or how would one do that?
>
> Check out the info manual: [[info:org#Macro
> Replacement]] but you should be able to use
> {{{date(%D)}}} to get the date.

{{{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".

(info "(org) Macro replacement")

  ‘{{{date}}}’
  ‘{{{date(FORMAT)}}}’
       This macro refers to the ‘#+DATE’ keyword.  FORMAT is an optional
       argument to the ‘{{{date}}}’ macro that will be used only if
       ‘#+DATE’ is a single timestamp.  FORMAT should be a format string
       understood by ‘format-time-string’.

(describe-function #'format-time-string)

  [...]
  %D is like "%m/%d/%y".
  [...]

So it should work according to these parts of the
documentation...

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