Newbie to clippings here.

[ferren]

I want the result to show the date automatically. I insert the clipping
#DATETIME_yy:mm:dd:hh:min:sec # into the code -- and the resulting HTML
reads "#DATETIME_yy:mm:dd:hh:min:sec #", where I was hoping for
something resembling 17:06:07:11:57:18. The insertion in the code is
followed by a space and an inverted red ?, which no doubt indicates
something. What have I missed?
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[Rich Siegel]

Post by ferren
DATETIME_yy:mm:dd:hh:min:sec

This isn't a valid format string; so the system function that
formats the time doesn't know what to do with it. ("min:sec"
isn't meaningful.)

If you search for "DATETIME" in the user manual, it will point
you to this reference for date/time formats:
<http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime>. (Scroll
down to the "Date/Time Format Syntax" section.)

Enjoy,

R.
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[ferren]

Post by ferren
I want the result to show the date automatically. I insert the clipping
#DATETIME_yy:mm:dd:hh:min:sec # into the code -- and the resulting HTML
reads "#DATETIME_yy:mm:dd:hh:min:sec #", where I was hoping for
something resembling 17:06:07:11:57:18. The insertion in the code is
followed by a space and an inverted red ?, which no doubt indicates
something. What have I missed?

Thank you Rich. I now understand the red question mark. But I got the
erroneous "min:sec" format by experimentally clicking on "date & time" in
the Universal clippings offering of the popup menu.

There's something major I don't understand about clippings. I type "d" and
hit F5, and get a popup which includes

• date
• date
• date & time
• date_format
• date_parse_from_format

1 and 3 get me the erroneous "min:sec" format, 2 gets "<date></date>", 4
and 5 get an error box saying "An attempt was made to resolve an Apple
Event reference to a non-existent object (MacOS Error code: -1728)"

If I just type in #DATETIME_y#, which ought to produce the year, I get the
format string showing up in the output. I am confused.
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[Rich Siegel]

Post by ferren
There's something major I don't understand about clippings. I
type "d" and hit F5, and get a popup which includes
• date
• date
• date & time
• date_format
• date_parse_from_format

None of these clippings are supplied with BBEdit (in fact, none
are nor have been for many years), and since I can't see what's
in them, I can't tell you why they misbehave. :-) This is
probably a matter for Tech Support.

Post by ferren
If I just type in #DATETIME_y#, which ought to produce the
year, I get the format string showing up in the output. I am confused.

Note that there needs to be a space between the end of
"DATETIME" and the format string. Thus:

#DATETIME _y#"

will give you the year prefixed with an underscore.

R.
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[ferren]

Post by Rich Siegel

Post by ferren
There's something major I don't understand about clippings. I
type "d" and hit F5, and get a popup which includes
• date
• date
• date & time
• date_format
• date_parse_from_format

None of these clippings are supplied with BBEdit (in fact, none
are nor have been for many years), and since I can't see what's
in them, I can't tell you why they misbehave. :-) This is
probably a matter for Tech Support.

Post by ferren
If I just type in #DATETIME_y#, which ought to produce the
year, I get the format string showing up in the output. I am confused.

Note that there needs to be a space between the end of
#DATETIME _y#"
will give you the year prefixed with an underscore.
R.
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Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
http://www.barebones.com/>
Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.

Ah, things are looking up, and I'm beginning to see how this works. I don't
know where my clippings file came from, if not BBEdit. (I used TextWrangler
long enough to write a 25 chapter book in HTML, and am only very recently
exploring the fancy features of BBEdit. Some of them work wonderfully well
and make life much simpler.)

But what I was hoping to find was a date format that would record the time
of most recent update automatically, rather than just once. Is there a way
to do that in BBEdit?
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