Text Formatting ⇒ date in documentclass llncs

[MonikaDiao]

Hello, I'm editing a short report with documentclass llncs as it is recommended by the institute and I'm also more familiar with it. The problem is, the date entry is suppressed somehow in this class. For example,
\begin{document}

%titles
\title{}
\subtitle{}
\author{}
\institute{}
\date{\today}
\maketitle

\end{document}

The date won't show. Is there a way to activate it again? Or it's designed this way in this class?

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,
llncs does not use the date field. So yeah, this is by design.