ANSWERED: setting date/time format

[DerellLicht1]

I recently discovered that I can use F5 to insert date/time into a document...
That is something that I actually sometimes want to do... however, the long-form format that is being used, is not useful to me; I wish to specify my own format (in this case MM/DD/YY, HHMM)... is there some way to set that format??
I tried looking through the Options menus, but I could easily have missed it!!!

[pjj]

Have a look at Text clips, chars > insert current date, it's there. You need to define [[date]] as e.g. @d[dd/mm/yyyy] and [[time]] (in a row below) as @t[hh:mm] and then write [[date]] [[time]] as a desired result (however slash as a separator in dates has been changed to a hyphen).

[DerellLicht1]

Thank ye once again, @pjj !!!

[pjj]

[DerellLicht1]

Have a look at Text clips, chars > insert current date, it's there. You need to define [[date]] as e.g. @d[dd/mm/yyyy] and [[time]] (in a row below) as @t[hh:mm] and then write [[date]] [[time]] as a desired result (however slash as a separator in dates has been changed to a hyphen).

sadly, this isn't working for me... I'm still missing something (other than a brain)...
I opened Text clips (from View -> Panels), but there is *nothing* on that panel that related to 'chars' at all, I don't see 'insert current date' anywhere...
so I still don't know how to do this...

Later:
Well, I don't know how I'm supposed to handle this thematically, but I searched through TextEd.ini and found the following line:
LongDateTime=1

Changed it to 0, and I now get the date/time display that I wanted...

[pjj]

sadly, this isn't working for me... I'm still missing something (other than a brain)...

If someone here is missing a brain, it's me, hands down

That "chars" folder I mentioned was... made by myself, no wonder you couldn't find it Just add a new clip (green plus sign) and then those two entries I suggested above. Or, if

(...) Changed it to 0, and I now get the date/time display that I wanted...

this suits you, don't bother with a text clip.

[DerellLicht1]

If someone here is missing a brain, it's me, hands down

That "chars" folder I mentioned was... made by myself, no wonder you couldn't find it

Well, given all the helpful advice that you've given me over the years, I'm not going to object to an occasional oops...
I'll just snicker a bit!!

Have a nice day...

[pjj]

Yeah, oopsie it was with regard to folder... but still you can use a text clip (I should have attached that screenshot earlier):

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I hope it can be useful to you somehow.

[DerellLicht1]

Yeah, oopsie it was with regard to folder... but still you can use a text clip (I should have attached that screenshot earlier):
I hope it can be useful to you somehow.

Oh!! Yes, it is...
The LongDateTime hack that I used, was not ideal, because it still includes the seconds, which I don't find useful when time-stamping code changes...
So *yes*, the image that you included most recently, is excellent... Thank ye!!