\ date {} in a table environment!

Question

I would like to create a table using a table environment, and in one of the cells in my table I need to indicate the actual date. Then a sensible approach would be to use the \ date {} command, but I cannot get it to work to include the \ date {} command inside the table environment ... is this not possible?

Greetings

Karsten

Answer 1

\date does not receive the date, sets the date of the document. If you are looking at the source code of latex.ltx , you will find:

 \def\date#1{\gdef\@date{#1}} 

So, if the document date is specified in the preamble, you can get it using \@date . Unfortunately (for you) this macro has @ , so you cannot use it directly in the text of a regular document. So you would have to put this in your preamble:

 \makeatletter \let\insertdate\@date \makeatother 

Then \insertdate is an alias \@date and inserts the date specified in the preamble into the current text.

But you also indicated the “actual” date, which may mean the current date since the document was compiled. This information is stored by TeX in \today .

By the way, you can find entire communities in TeX StackExchange , where the question related to TeX is too small.

Answer 2

In the preamble, you can put the following:

 \usepackage{datetime} \newdateformat{bkdate}{\THEYEAR-\shortmonthname-\twodigit{\THEDAY}} 

and then print the date anywhere in the document body

 \bkdate\today