Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1993-08-11 15:03:41 PST

> We've got a LaTeX file that prints the date using \today on the header
> of each page, and the header's getting kinda crowded.  Since we figure
> that "8/11/93" takes up less space than "August 11, 1993", we'd like
> to change the date format to MM/DD/YY.
>
> I've researched the \date and \today commands as far as my manuals will
> allow (which isn't far at all), and I couldn't find anything that allowed
> you to switch formats without supplying the date yourself (as per \date).
> Is there any way to get \today's information in MM/DD/YY format?

The real manual is the source :-) so look for the definition of \today in e.g. article.sty and redefine \today as something like

\def\today{\number\month/\number\day/\number\year}

(But you'll get dates like 1/1/94 without leading zeroes, so perhaps you will have to do a bit of refinement …)

Reinhard Zierke