<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >date_formatting_text</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="makethumbs documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="makethumbs variable reference" HREF="r15.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="create_slideshow" HREF="r427.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="dates_filename" HREF="r484.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >makethumbs documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r427.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r484.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="REF.DATE_FORMATTING_TEXT" ></A ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >date_formatting_text</CODE ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN460" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >date_formatting_text</CODE > -- formatting style for printing dates</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN464" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" > date_formatting_text="@MONTH@ @DAY@, @YEAR@" </PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN466" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > Given a day, year, and month, <B CLASS="COMMAND" >makethumbs</B > has to create a date string intelligibly. In English we print dates like "June 19, 1970". In other languages, these will be in different orders or with different seperator characters. The value for <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >@MONTH@</I ></TT > can be set via the <CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >monthname</CODE > class of variables. This varable is primarily localization variable. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN472" ></A ><H2 >See also</H2 ><P > <A HREF="r1058.html" > <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >month_names</CODE ></SPAN ></SPAN > </A > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN479" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><DIV CLASS="INFORMALEXAMPLE" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN481" ></A ><P > To format dates in Portuguese, you'd use something like this: </P ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > date_formatting_text="@DAY@ de @MONTH@ de @YEAR@" </PRE ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r427.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r484.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >create_slideshow</CODE ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r15.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><CODE CLASS="VARNAME" >dates_filename</CODE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >