How to display the \date command in a slide? not in a titlepage

[ouboub]

Hi to my surprise

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[<+->]
  \frametitle{Test date}
The date \date{07-02-2023}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

did not show the date, what do I miss (google did not help) Uwe Brauer

[samcarter]

The \date{....} macro is to set the date. To insert it in your presentation, you can use \insertdate (or \insertshortdate) (note that these macro have no argument)

\documentclass{beamer}

\date{07-02-2023}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[<+->]
  \frametitle{Test date}
The date \insertdate
\end{frame}
\end{document}

[ouboub]

Thanks, the only problem with this solutions is: if one wants to insert several different dates Like:

1. meeting \date{01.01.2020}
2. meeting \date{02.02.2020}

then that seems to fail (BTW, I could no find your solution in the manual, but maybe I should update the manual)

[samcarter]

If you'd like to insert several different dates, I don't think \date/\insertdate is the appropriate way. This is really meant to store the date of the presentation for reuse in the titlepage, footlines etc.

You could directly type the date as normal text or, if you'd like fancy formatting, have a look at the datetime2 package.

[samcarter]

(BTW, I could no find your solution in the manual, but maybe I should update the manual)

\insertdate is documented in section "10.1 Adding a Title Page" of the beamer user guide

[ouboub]

ok