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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label time</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Printing the time</h3>
+<p/>TeX has a primitive register that contains &ldquo;the number of minutes
+since midnight&rdquo;; with this knowledge it&rsquo;s a moderately simple
+programming job to print the time (one that no self-respecting
+Plain TeX user would bother with anyone else&rsquo;s code for).
+<p/>However, LaTeX provides no primitive for &ldquo;time&rdquo;, so the
+non-programming LaTeX user needs help.
+<p/>Two packages are available, both providing ranges of ways of printing
+the date, as well as of the time: this question will concentrate on
+the time-printing capabilities, and interested users can investigate
+the documentation for details about dates.
+<p/>The <i>datetime</i> package defines two time-printing functions:
+<code>\</code><code>xxivtime</code> (for 24-hour time), <code>\</code><code>ampmtime</code> (for 12-hour time) and
+<code>\</code><code>oclock</code> (for time-as-words, albeit a slightly eccentric set of
+words).
+<p/>The <i>scrtime</i> package (part of the compendious
+<i>KOMA-Script</i> bundle) takes a package option (<code>12h</code> or
+<code>24h</code>) to specify how times are to be printed. The command
+<code>\</code><code>thistime</code> then prints the time appropriately (though there&rsquo;s no
+<em>am</em> or <em>pm</em> in <code>12h</code> mode). The <code>\</code><code>thistime</code>
+command also takes an optional argument, the character to separate the
+hours and minutes: the default is of course <code>:</code>.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>datetime.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime.zip">macros/latex/contrib/datetime</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datetime/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>scrtime.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=time">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=time</a>
+</body>