[HelpRequest] Stamp the date and time as text so it does not change?

[David Gifford]

Hi all

I was so pleased when I created this:

• https://giffmex.org/gifts/documenting.tw.html#Insert%20the%20current%20time%20as%20text

But now I realize it just inserts a macro that changes every time I update the tiddler.

Is there a way to stamp the actual date and/or time as TEXT, so that the time does not update? Thinking of journaling, marking task start and end time, etc. Would be nice to have an editortoolbar that does this. I tried TiddlyTime but it does what the above link does, pasts a macro. I don't see that the other links in the toolmap do such a thing.

Blessings! And thanks in advance.

[TW Tones]

The typical solution to this is to first use wikify the macro or variable before setting

<$wikify name=date text="""<<now>>"">

...

button and action widget use <<date>> as the value not <<now>>

</$wikify>

Regards

Tones

[David Gifford]

Thanks Tones! I will try it out!

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[Mohammad Rahmani]

Hi David,

 One of the best is Insert Timestamp with ctrl+D shortcut from Ton Gerner

 http://tongerner.tiddlyspot.com/

Ton has created very useful tools but he never advertises them! 

It is worth adding some of these tools to Tiddlywiki Toolmap.

I am a fan of his great work on Tiddlywiki.

Best wishes

Mohammad

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[tony]

This one from Riz

still works well :-)

<$action-sendmessage
$message="tm-edit-text-operation"
$param="replace-selection"
text=<<now 'YYYY-0MM-0DDT0hh:0mm:0ssTZD'>>
/>

and similar to TonGerner's sans nifty KeyboardShortcut

Best,

tony

[David Gifford]

Thanks Mohammad! 

1. Looking at Ton's plugin, I see now that I had accidentally added quotations around the now macro. Getting rid of them from my tiddler did the trick.

2. Yes, I agree, Ton's stuff is amazing. A search for gerner in my toolmap shows I did add most of his plugins, but Insert timestamp was not one of them. Just added it.

Blessings.