Date format in LaTeX

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I use UKenglish package. And the \date command produces the date like so: 10th October 2011. But I want just 10 October 2011; th should be omitted. How can this be done? I tried using datetime package. But couldn't eliminate th in the date.

score 58 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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The isodate package allows for various formatting of language-specific dates. The command \cleanlookdateon removes the ordinal numbering of the day and simply prints it as a numeric:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}% http://ctan.org/pkg/babel
\usepackage[UKenglish]{isodate}% http://ctan.org/pkg/isodate
\begin{document}
Original date format: \today \par
\cleanlookdateon% Remove ordinal day reference
Modified date format: \today
\end{document}

Modified UK date

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answered Oct 10 '11 at 16:03

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What about other languages? – The Student Dec 08 '12 at 23:43
@TomBrito: See How to generate the date in Portuguese? – Werner Dec 09 '12 at 07:49
I am trying to simply change the / for . in the date format. I use \usepackage[num,german]{isodate} and \isodash{.} but the output of \today is still 28/12/2013. Why? All this in a scrlttr2 using \usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}, \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and \usepackage{babel} if that information is important. – Nikos Alexandris Dec 28 '13 at 12:20
I see that I was confused above. I now don't use isodash{} as I don't ask for an ISO format. However, I can't make it work (any change) for example with \numdate\today when I previously set, for example, \daymonthsepgerman{$\cdot$}%. Any hints? – Nikos Alexandris Dec 28 '13 at 12:34
Well, I forgot to add the "german" option for scrlttr2 :-). It now works. – Nikos Alexandris Dec 28 '13 at 13:04
Haha! And now the problem is that various "terms" (speak, koma-script variables) are also translated into German! How can I influence only the date? – Nikos Alexandris Dec 28 '13 at 14:28

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 16:00

With the datetime package this could be done like this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[UKenglish]{datetime}

\begin{document}
\today

vs.

\newdateformat{UKvardate}{%
\THEDAY\ \monthname[\THEMONTH], \THEYEAR}
\UKvardate
\today
\end{document}

and the result is:

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egreg · Answer 3 · 2011-10-10T16:03:25.570

Write this after loading babel:

\renewcommand\dateUKenglish{\def\today{\number\day~%
 \ifcase \month \or January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or
   July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi\space
 \number\year}}
\dateUKenglish

Another way is to use the datetime package:

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

\let\dateUKenglish\relax
\newdateformat{dateUKenglish}{\THEDAY~\monthname[\THEMONTH] \THEYEAR}

Undefining \dateUKenglish is necessary in order to redefine it with \newdateformat.

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