How to print the current year in a LaTeX document?

[Jason White]

What is the right way to print the current year in a LaTeX document? The
following sample document, when run through pdflatex, gives the error:
! Missing number, treated as zero.

This also happens if I write \arabic{year} instead of \year.

I'm using the latest TeX Live 2011/2012 packages from Debian.

I don't strictly need this functionality, but I'm curious as it isn't working
as I expected, and my Web searches haven't identified a solution.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
This document was printed in \year\ and typeset with \LaTeX.
\end{document}

[KF Leong]

On Thursday, 31 May 2012 11:10:35 UTC+8, Jason White wrote:
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> \begin{document}
> This document was printed in \year\ and typeset with \LaTeX.
> \end{document}

-----
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
This document was printed in \the\year\ and typeset with \LaTeX.
\end{document}
-----

Reference:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19725/how-to-insert-4-digit-year-that-shows-up-in-today

[Jason White]

>-----
>\documentclass{article}
>
>\begin{document}
>This document was printed in \the\year\ and typeset with \LaTeX.
>\end{document}
>-----
>
>Reference:
>http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19725/how-to-insert-4-digit-year-that-shows-up-in-today

Thanks. That should solve the problem perfectly.

[Celso Alberto Rojas Pukall]

For the record, it has solved this very problem for me, thanks!

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Use the scrdate package from Komascript, which allows a large variety.

el

[Peter Flynn]

On 03/12/2022 14:21, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> Use the scrdate package from Komascript, which allows a large variety.

Or the datetime2 package, which has similar features.

Peter