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Adding a date
To add a date, use the Insert > Date option in the "Menus" on page 482. A dialog appears with
the following controls:
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Language: Use the drop-down to select which language the date should be displayed in.
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Update Automatically: Check to update the date automatically when the template is
viewed or produces output. When this option is checked, a placeholder is inserted in the
template and a script is created to update it automatically, otherwise a static text with the
date is inserted.
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Available Formats: Select the date/time format in which to display the date.
Click OK to insert the date or Cancel to close the dialog.
Changing the date
Once inserted, a date can be modified directly in the template (if it does not update
automatically) or through the date script (if it does update automatically). To modify the date in
the script:
1.
Double-click the date script in the Scripts pane.
2. Between the round brackets after Date, enter the desired date in the following order:year,
month, day, and optionally hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds (see
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date.) When the time is omitted, it
defaults to 12:00:00 AM.
Formatting an automatically updating date
The script added to automatically update the date uses the short date format. To change this:
1.
Double-click the date script in the Scripts pane.
2. Delete the first line of the script.
3. On the second line, delete what comes after format and change format to
formatter (see "formatter" on page 200).
4.
Now type a dot after formatter, press Ctrl + space and choose one of the functions to
format a date and time; see "Date, date/time and time functions" on page 192.
Note
The Locale, set in the Edit > Locale dialog, has an influence on the formatting of a date. The
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