isodate.sty
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Tune the output format of dates.

This package provides five commands to switch the output format of the 
commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange
(partly language dependent): 
\isodate switches to yyyy-mm-dd; 
\numdate switches to dd.\,mm.~yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, or mm/dd/yyyy; 
\shortdate switches to dd.\,mm.\,yy, dd/mm/yy, or mm/dd/yy; 
\TeXdate switches to yyyy/mm/dd; and 
\origdate switches to the original LaTeX format.

The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
The date is given as an argument using the actual date format for output: 
\printdate{yyyy-mm-dd}, \printdate{dd.mm.yyyy}, or \printdate{dd/mm/yyyy},
and \printdateTeX{yyyy/mm/dd}. 

The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary 
year or month entries. 
E.g. 2000-05-03 to 2000-05-08 leads to `2000-05-03 to 08'.

This package supports German (old and new rules, Austrian), US
English, French, Danish, and Norwegian (by Svend Tollak Munkejord).

The idea for this package was taken from the akletter class. 


Version 2.0 was totally rewritten so that some incompatiblities may occur. The
old version is still available as isodateo.sty (`o' for old).


Copyright 2000, 2001 Harald Harders

This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
version 1 of the License, or any later version.



Installation:

before installing: - be sure that the package substr.sty is installed on your
                     system. If not download it from 
                     CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/substr/
                     and install it.

automatic: - execute install.sh or install.bat or run make.
           - copy isodate.sty to a place where LaTeX can find it.
           - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution.

by hand: - execute latex on isodate.ins.
         - execute latex on isodate.dtx (2x).
         - copy isodate.sty to a place LaTeX can find it.
         - run texhash or the corresponding command of your distribution.



List of known errors:
    - The \printdate and \printdateTeX commands are not very good in 
      checking the argument for correct syntax.


To do:
    - add other languages than German, New German, English,
      UKenglish, USenglish, French, Danish, Norwegian, Austrian, New Austrian


2001-05-04
Harald Harders
h.harders@tu-bs.de