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From: panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos)
Subject: Re: LaTeX guru question: \timestamp macro that sometimes fails
Message-ID: <91Apr28.124501edt.2151@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 28 Apr 91 16:45:16 GMT
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siemsen@sol.usc.edu (Pete Siemsen) writes:

>A user here asked for a way to insert the current time and date into
>his LaTeX files.  I found a macro in "TeX for the Impatient" that does
>the job nicely, and the user went away happy.  Then he tried using the
>macro in his page headings, where it only works partially.

>Here's a sample file the demonstrates the problem.  In the heading,
>the date is fine but the time comes out as "0:0".  I'm by no means

   I cannot help you with the macro you just posted. 
   As far as  the date is concerned, LaTeX has a \today macro.
   Regarding the time of the day, I use in page headers the following  
   \hhmm  macro, found in in our ``Local Guide to LaTeX''.
   The specific file (page layout) seems to have originally been
   posted/mailed by Nelson Beebe at U. of Utah.
   It does handle times like 3:02.

% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
%
% TIME OF DAY
%
\newcount\hh
\newcount\mm
\mm=\time
\hh=\time
\divide\hh by 60
\divide\mm by 60
\multiply\mm by 60
\mm=-\mm
\advance\mm by \time
\def\hhmm{\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi\number\mm}

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