How do I get \today to display today's date as 14-Sep-2018?

Question

What I'm getting now from \today is:

14th September 2018

How do I change it to:

14-Sep-2018

See page 96 of this documentation. – Masroor Sep 15 '18 at 01:31 — Masroor, Sep 15 '18 at 01:31

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 01:36

8

I think that the easiest way is to redefine \today to print this:

\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand\today{\number\day-%
  \ifcase\month \or Jan%
  \or Feb%
  \or Mar%
  \or Apr%
  \or May%
  \or Jun%
  \or Jul%
  \or Aug%
  \or Sep%
  \or Oct%
  \or Nov%
  \or Dec\fi-\number\year}%

\begin{document}

  \today

\end{document}

For completeness, here is the output:

answered Sep 15 '18 at 01:36

3

+1 but what's wrong with \usepackage[yyyymmdd]{datetime} ? – Sep 15 '18 at 02:27
+1 because you didn't use an external package. :) – manooooh Sep 15 '18 at 02:41
@marmot I guess it’s all a question of what you know:) – Sep 15 '18 at 11:25

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '18 at 10:06

Here's how to do it with datetime2 and datetime2-english:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[en-GB]{datetime2}
\DTMlangsetup[en-GB]{daymonthsep={-},monthyearsep={-},ord=omit,abbr}

\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}

This produces:

You can replace en-GB with any of the other English localisation styles that uses a day month year format. For example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[en-MT]{datetime2}
\DTMlangsetup[en-MT]{daymonthsep={-},monthyearsep={-},ord=omit,abbr}

\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}

How do I get \today to display today's date as 14-Sep-2018?

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