[AUCTeX-devel] \date insert american format

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

Look at the following german example document.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\author{Ich}
\date{2014/07/23}
\maketitle{}

\section{Einleitung}
\label{sec:einleitung}

Blabla
\end{document}


When I executed TeX-insert-macro
the minibuffer showed 

Date (default (2014/07/23))

The corresponding code seems to me:
(defun TeX-arg-date (optional &optional prompt)
  "Prompt for a date, defaulting to the current date.
If OPTIONAL is non-nil, insert the resulting value as an optional
argument, otherwise as a mandatory one.  Use PROMPT as the prompt
string."
  (let ((default (format-time-string "%Y/%m/%d" (current-time))))
    (TeX-argument-insert
     (TeX-read-string (TeX-argument-prompt
                       optional prompt (format "Date (default %s)" default))
                      nil nil default)
     optional)))


Two question:

    -  couldn't this function allow to select other time formats, like
       %d.%m.%Y (german standard)

    -  or best when scanning the header and recognising
       \usepackage[german]{babel} auctex  does it itself.

thanks

Uwe Brauer

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