General ⇒ Date is Not printing

[gpn]

Please look the below .tex file and generate PDF using pdflatex.
Here the problem is, it displays the text “date” instead of the actual date. How to print the actual date?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry}
\usepackage[pdfstartview=FitH,unicode]{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphics}
\date{November 22, 2000}
\begin{document}
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii \\
Date is: \@date
\end{document}

[php1ic]

Use \today to get the current date.

[gpn]

Use \today to get the current date.

Thanks for the response
I want to print a particular date (not todays date). I am not sure, whether I am missing any thing in the code.

[php1ic]

The problem may be that \date is reserved by the class file. I have had no experience using \@ so don't know what it does, but I guess you are trying to redefine \date. Try this

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\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\date}{November 22, 2000}
\begin{document}
Date: \date
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi gpn,

if you want to access \@date, use \makeatletter:

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Date is: \makeatletter\@date\makeatother

Stefan

[localghost]

For general access.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[margin=1.0in]{geometry}

\author{gpn}
\title{How to access the date}
\date{November 22, 2000}

\makeatletter
\let\Title\@title
\let\Author\@author
\let\Date\@date
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \noindent
  Title is: \Title\\
  Author is: \Author\\
  Date is: \Date\\
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹