geoff, 2 months ago

@RogerBW I think an Org-mode macro might be perfect: https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-Replacement.html

RogerBW, 2 months ago

@geoff Excellent! I mean, it doesn't actually produce anything in the output, or an error message, but I agree that that ought to work.

geoff, 2 months ago

@RogerBW using {{{time(%FT%T%z)}}} seems to give a working export in LaTeX for me.

RogerBW, 2 months ago

@geoff OK, my org-mode setup is uniquely broken. I just assembled an org file consisting of:

{{{date}}}
{{{date(%Y-%m-%d}}}
{{{time(%FT%T%z)}}}

and exporting to LaTeX shows none of these.

geoff, 1 month ago

@RogerBW {{{date}}} requires that a #+DATE: header be set, but the time one should work and gives the exact time the file was exported for me.

RogerBW, 1 month ago

@geoff Aha yes that's what was going on - I hadn't realised I needed to set DATE explicitly to use {{{date}}} (which of course isn't what I want to do anyway). {{{time(%Y-%m-%d)}}} gets the job done. Thanks!