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I'm using the day of the year a lot in my documents and I wonder if I can have LaTex calculating it for me? Example: 2013178 where 2013 is (surprise) the current year (which I know could be achieved by \the\year) and 178, the day of the year.
Was googling both in english and in german ("LaTex day of the year" and "Latex Tag des Jahres") and found only posts and howtos regarding the day of the week and month.
PS: I tagged it with macros since I assume that this might need one to be solved.
Not sure how you are using this macro, but for me it produces the date that I specify in the parameters to the macro:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{datetime}
\newcommand{\introduction}[3]{%
This is regarding your loan application that was on \formatdate{#1}{#2}{#3}.}%
\begin{document}
\noindent
\introduction{04}{05}{1977}
\end{document}
Ah, a use for the australian language. Its date format is correct, so you can load it as a subsiduary language via babel and then wrap your bibliography in an otherlanguage environment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[australian,american]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber,dateabbrev=false]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
@book{Book,
title = {This is a Title},
author = {Author, Some},
location = {The City},
publisher = {Publisher},
date = 2005,
month = feb,
day = 14,
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{references.bib}
\begin{document}
\today
Citing \cite{Book}.
\begin{otherlanguage}{australian}
\printbibliography
\end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Why not the simpler way of
datenumber?