New on CTAN: filedate

[CTAN Announcements]

Uwe Lück submitted the

  filedate 

package to CTAN.


Summary description: Access and compare info and modification dates
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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`filedate.sty' provides basic access to the date of a LaTeX 
source file according to its \ProvidesFile, \ProvidesPackage, 
or \ProvidesClass entry -- the "info date" --, as well as to 
its modification date according to \pdffilemoddate if the 
latter is available. Moreover commands are provided to compare 
the "info date" with the modification date, with "today"'s 
date, or with another date that a script accessing modifica-
tion dates such as adhocfilelist.sh may insert, and to choose 
the effect of comparisons (error vs. "notice", reference date 
characterization). Thus updating the "info date" ("date con-
sistency") of a source file may be ensured by a test during 
typesetting from it or by some (shell/TeX) script.

In fact the test today admonished me to update the 
documentation source and driver `filedate.tex'. Another 
motivating example of "date inconsistency" was `nicefilelist' 
v0.6 as of 2012-10-11 (see version history) with "info date" 
2012/10/03.

REQUIRED PACKAGES: `readprov' for two commands

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/filedate
.  More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/filedate
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf