datetime2 package FAQ
Why is
showdow
a package option rather than a language option? 🔗
In order to show the day of week (showdow=true
), the week day needs to be calculated for commands like \today
and \DTMdate
. This requires that the datetime2-calc.sty package is loaded. If showdow
is used as a package option, it can automatically load datetime2-calc after datetime2 has finished loading, which saves you from remembering to load it. Since the datetime2-calc package additionally requires pgfkeys and pgfcalendar which adds to the overall document build time, it’s not loaded unless required.
2021-09-29 10:30:45
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Category: datetime2 package
Topic:
Localisation