Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 2000/03/19

> The date is formatted in latex2html.bat (for windows version 99.2beta6)

Problem is I run it under Linux!!

> To change the date format look for the lines:
> # Author address
> @address data = &address data('ISO');
>
> Get rid of 'ISO' on the second line to read
> # Author address
> @address data = &address data();
>
> This change gives the American date format mm/dd/yyyy.
> To change this find the subroutine:
> sub get date {
>
> and at the end change the line
>
> } else { sprintf("%d/%d/%d", $m+1, $d, 1900+$y); } to
> } else { sprintf("%d/%d/%d", $d, $m+1, 1900+$y); }
>
> You can also change the / in this line if you wish.

That sounds good but the problem is I don't have these subroutines in my latex2html.config file, and i don't know in which file they are on this system.

 > There's an interesting discussion of this issue at
 > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/latex2html/1997-08/msg00100.ht[] ml
 > and you'll probably be able to use it to come up with a better solution
.

Same thing there, it doens't specify where to find these subroutines.

I soved the problem (maybe not in the best way) by using a regular expression on the variable that gives the date in yyyy-mm-dd in my latex2html.config :

$address data[1]=~s/(.*)-(.*)-(.*)/$3-$2-$1/; $ADDRESS = "<I>Derni?e modification : $address data[1]</I>";

and it does just what i want! Thanks anyway,

Jean-Marc Lecarpentier

>and it does just what i want!

$ diff -wu /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl~ /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl
--- /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl~  2003-02-18 22:13:01.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl   2004-01-28 21:07:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@

 sub english_today {
     local($today) = &get_date();
-    $today =~ s|(\d+)/0?(\d+)/|$2 $Month[$1] |;
+    $today =~ s|(\d+)/0?(\d+)/|$Month[$1] $2, |;
     join('',$today,$_[0]);
 }