Dear kind folks,
Is there a way to get day and time in a metapost document? I can get it from shell or from the document created, but a command/macro would be preferred.
$ cat 20190906.mp verbatimtex %&latex \documentclass{minimal} \begin{document} etex beginfig(0); drawdblarrow (-60,0)--(60,0); drawdblarrow (0,60)--(0,-60); drawarrow (0,0)--(30,54); drawarrow (-60,0)--(60,0); label.bot(btex $A$ etex, (6,64)); label.bot(btex $B$ etex, (62,0)); label.bot(btex $C$ etex, (0,-62)); label.bot(btex $D$ etex, (-60,0)); label.bot(btex $E$ etex, (6,-6)); label.bot(btex $F$ etex, (32,54)); label.lft(btex $\hbox{ BELL WORK }$ etex, (-60,-24)); label.lft(btex $\hbox{ Fri Sep 6 08:55:48 CDT 2019 }$ etex, (-60,-36)); %label.bot(btex $10x - 2$ etex, (0,24)); %label.bot(btex $9x + 12 $ etex, (0,-16)); label.bot(btex $10x + 5$ etex, (28,16)); label.bot(btex $\overline{AC} \perp \overline{DB}$ etex, (-60,-48)); label.bot(btex $13x + 9$ etex, (-28,16)); label.bot(btex $m\angle AEF = $ etex, (-60,-60)); label.bot(btex $m\angle AED = $ etex, (-60,-72)); label.bot(btex $m\angle FEB = $ etex, (-60,-84)); label.lft(btex $x = $ etex, (-32,-102)); label.lft(btex $\angle AED \hbox{ and } \angle BEC \hbox{ are }$ etex, (-32,-114)); label.urt(btex $\hbox{A) vertical} $ etex, (-32,-126)); label.urt(btex $\hbox{B) supplementary} $ etex, (-32,-140)); label.urt(btex $\hbox{C) complementary} $ etex, (-32,-154)); endfig; $
We can see
%%Creator: MetaPost %%CreationDate: 2019.09.07:0852 But can we see it the document itself when viewed by gv? Or by okular/evince?
Thanks in advance,
Antonio
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