Hi I am using Texmaker to create some documents. When I use \date{text} the text being any date, and then run the .tex file I don't see the date in the PDF file. It's just blank. Not sure why. Is there a specific package to use \date?
[Tex/LaTex] Query regarding usage of \date
datetime
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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.
These are too many questions at a time. I think I have solutions for first two and close solutions to questions three and four.
I defined different headers for long table.
Defined a column format using
p{}.datetimeis used for the third andxcolorwithtableoption is used to do coloring.
\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor} %use this instead of color, table option for coloring table lines
\usepackage{ulem}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[font=bf,singlelinecheck=on,format=hang,margin=2cm,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage[short,nodayofweek]{datetime}% to define date format
\newdateformat{mydate}{\THEDAY \THEMONTH \twodigit{\THEYEAR}}
\newdateformat{usvardate}{%
{\THEDAY} \shortmonthname[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
%\input{rgb} % what is rgb?
%-------------------------------------
\begin{document}
%\rowcolors[\hline]{3}{green!25}{yellow!50} \arrayrulecolor{red!75!gray}
%\begin{center} % not needed as longtable is centered by default
\begin{longtable}{|l|p{2cm}|l|l|l|l|l|}
\caption{This is a long caption for table generated as at \usvardate\today\ and this may span more than one line for sure}\label{tab:mytable}\\
\hline
Surname & Column One and this is big header & Column Two & Column Three & Column Four & Column Five & Column Six \\ \hline
\endfirsthead
\multicolumn{7}{c}%
{{\bfseries \tablename\ \thetable{} -- continued from previous page}} \\
\hline
%
Surname & Column One and this is big header & Column Two & Column Three & Column Four & Column Five & Column Six \\ \hline
\endhead
%
\hline \multicolumn{7}{|r|}{{Continued on next page}} \\ \hline
\endfoot
%
\hline
\multicolumn{7}{|r|}%
{{\bfseries \tablename\ \thetable{} -- concluded}} \\
\hline
\endlastfoot
%
\arrayrulecolor{red!75!gray}
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & \multicolumn{1}{>{\columncolor{red!30}[1\tabcolsep]}l|}{5} & 6 \\ \hline
\arrayrulecolor{black}
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
\newpage
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
\rowcolor{blue!25}
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\\hline
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
Oliver & 1 & \color{green}2 & \color{red}\uuline{3} & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline
\end{longtable}
%\end{center}
\end{document}
Best Answer
\datemerely sets the date and doesn't print it, just like\titleand\authoralso doesn't typeset anything. Actually,\datestores its value in\@date, which you can retrieve if you don't use\maketitle(since it acts in a self-destruct fashion, wiping out most of the title-related information after its usage). If you which to print it, you could definein your preamble and use
\printdatewherever you want to show the date specified through\date.However, the best way to access the date and print it in various formats, is to use the
isodatepackage. See Date format in LaTeX.