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ANSWERED: setting date/time format
Posted: 31 Oct 2025 21:12
by 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!!!
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 31 Oct 2025 21:49
by 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).
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 31 Oct 2025 22:04
by DerellLicht1
Thank ye once again, @pjj !!!
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 31 Oct 2025 22:19
by pjj
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 03 Nov 2025 22:34
by DerellLicht1
pjj wrote: 31 Oct 2025 21:49
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...
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 04 Nov 2025 08:44
by pjj
DerellLicht1 wrote: 03 Nov 2025 22:34
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
DerellLicht1 wrote: 03 Nov 2025 22:34
(...) 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.

Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 05 Nov 2025 16:19
by DerellLicht1
pjj wrote: 04 Nov 2025 08:44
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...
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 05 Nov 2025 16:49
by 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.
Re: setting date/time format
Posted: 06 Nov 2025 03:19
by DerellLicht1
pjj wrote: 05 Nov 2025 16:49
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!!