Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 1997/01/27

>Is there a way to make \today yield "27 January 1997"
>instead of "January 27, 1997"?

Just get the definition of \today from article.cls (or wherever) and permute it, eg

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}

\edef\today{\number\day\space
  \ifcase\month\or
  January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or
  July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi,
  \number\year}

\begin{document}

\today

\end{document}

Timothy Murphy