[Tex/LaTex] How to change date format to German

datetimeformattinggerman

I use the \today comment, then it produces 26th February. However in my context, I want 26ten Februar. How can I change that?

Best Answer

Try with the datetime package, by defining a new date format:

\newdateformat{myformat}{\THEDAY{ten }\monthname[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{datetime}

\newdateformat{myformat}{\THEDAY{ten }\monthname[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}

\begin{document}

\myformat\today

\end{document}

Output:

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EDIT

If you can't load babel with the language ngerman, you can however load datetime as

\usepackage[ngerman]{datetime}

and define the date format as

\newdateformat{myformat}{\THEDAY{ten }\monthnamengerman[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[ngerman]{datetime}

\newdateformat{myformat}{\THEDAY{ten }\monthnamengerman[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}

\begin{document}

\myformat\today

\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

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At first make a file,call it datetime.lua and add the following line.

datetime.lua

t = {}

All dates are saved in a lua table. You can edit them later in this file.

main.tex

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\usepackage{luacode}

\begin{luacode}
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I am using a counter to make a referenz to the date position. The value is passed to a simple lua function. If the date is already saved, it is loaded from the table and if not, it is written to the datetime file and the current date is printed.

Edit: You can get a problem when you change the order. (reorder the numbers in datetime.lua)

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EDIT

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