[Tex/LaTex] \date command – replacing “Date:” by something else

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I'm using \documentclass{amsart}. In the tex file, before \maketitle I write \date{22th october 2012}, and then I obtain "Date: 22th october 2012." as a result.

Using \date, I want it to print "London, 22th october 2012.". How can I do that?

I tried \renewcommand{\date}, but maybe the right thing to do is to change \the@date.

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You can redefine \datename to suppress the string "Date:"

\documentclass{amsart}

\renewcommand{\datename}{}

\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}
\date{London, 22th october 2012}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\end{document}

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This will work on linux, with \write18 enabled; i.e., run using pdftex --shell-escape:

{\catcode`\%=12
\immediate\write18
 {/usr/bin/stat --format '\string\foo\space %yZ' \jobname.tex >\jobname.date}
 \def\foo#1 #2Z{\gdef\filedate{#1}}
 \input\jobname.date
}
The file is dated \filedate.
\bye

As I state in a comment above, you cannot get the file creation date, though. This gives you the file modification date instead.

[Tex/LaTex] Insert date set with \date command

It is not quite clear what exactly do you want to do. Usually the title is created by using \maketitle at the point of the document where you want to insert it. However it will be formatted whichever way your documentclass defines it. Redefining it is, of course, possible: you have to define \@maketitle appropriately, in which you can refer to \@title, etc.

However if you are not writing your own class, there might not be much of a point doing this. If you just want a title page, you don't have to use the \title etc commands, just put in the title whichever way you want. There is also a \begin{titlepage} - \end{titlepage} environment for creating a custom titlepage, but again, it does not use the \title command.

EDIT:

Yet another indirect option (along the lines of Andrea R's solution): define your own \thedate, \thetitle, etc commands using \newcommand, and then just use it in the titlepage:

\newcommand{\thedate}{\today}
\newcommand{\thetitle}{Your title}
...
\begin{titlepage}
   \centering\textbf{\thetitle}
\end{titlepage}

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