General ⇒ Specify a certain Date

[staddum]

Hi there, this is my first post.

I've been using LaTeX for two days now, that meaning that I'm as noob as one can be. I use MiKTeX with TeXworks and I've a question.

Whenever I try \date{whateverdateifeellikewriting}, it doesn't work. It seems like the date updates from my system and I'd like to change it myself. Does anyone know how to do it and care to tell me?

thx, stadd.

[josephwright]

Please post a minimal working example (MWE): a full document showing the issue. Your approach should usually work.

[staddum]

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[portuguese]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}



\title{Apontamentos Introdução à Fisica Moderna - Física quântica}
\author{staddum}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\date{01 december}
\newpage

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi staddum,

welcome to the board!

Just call \date before \maketitle instead of after it.
Btw. a minimal code example should be compilable (here's \end{document} missing), further the forum has a code environment for posting code, for better readability. Just mark your code and press the Code button when editing.

Stefan

[staddum]

Hi staddum,

welcome to the board!

Just call \date before \maketitle instead of after it.
Btw. a minimal code example should be compilable (here's \end{document} missing), further the forum has a code environment for posting code, for better readability. Just mark your code and press the Code button when editing.

Stefan

Hi Stefan, thanks.

Doing \date before \maketitle actually worked. Such a simple solution. Thanks for the tips also

[holms]

Just registered to report \date{04 december} doesn't produce any output at all

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[L7x]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Where's my date? \date{05 december}
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

Welcome holms.

That is correct and to be expected. As has been pointed out above, you need to outut the title stuff using \maketitle later.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[L7x]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\date{05 december}
\title{Wally Wombat's adventures}
\author{That would be me}
\maketitle
Where's my date?
\end{document}