Text Formatting ⇒ datetime2 date style yyyymmdd

[wjfeeney]

Using the {datetime2} package, what is the code to use the date style yyyymmdd? Currently, I am using

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\DTMsetdatestyle{default}\today

which displays 2023-08-05. I would like to get rid of the hyphen separators so the date will display as 20230805.

Thanks in advance.

[rais]

See `texdoc datetime2', section `Package options' starts with all the separators.

KR
Rainer

[wjfeeney]

I have reviewed the datetime2 documentation, but I am not finding the solution.

I tried this in my preamble:

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\usepackage[USenglish]{datetime2}
\DTMnewdatestyle{mydate}{\THEYEAR\THEMONTH\THEDAY}

but this doesn't work.

What do I put after {mydate} to output the date without separators, e.g., 20230805?

[rais]

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\usepackage[USenglish]{datetime2}
\DTMnewdatestyle{mydate}{\THEYEAR\THEMONTH\THEDAY}

you appear to be mixing commands from the older datetime package with commands from the current datetime2 package, that's not a good idea.
According to datetime2's documentation, \DTMnewdatestyle should be used to redefine \DTMdisplaydate and \DTMDisplaydate, e.g.,

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\DTMnewdatestyle{mydate}{%
  \renewcommand*\DTMdisplaydate[4]{##1##2##3}%
  \renewcommand*\DTMDisplaydate{\DTMdisplaydate}%
}

Just defining a new style's probably not enough, most likely you need to set it, as well

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\DTMsetdatestyle{mydate}

should do just that.

I was thinking of a somewhat simpler approach, though:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[datesep={}]{datetime2}
\begin{document}
\today
\end{document}

hence the previous hint about `package options'.

KR
Rainer

[wjfeeney]

This works, awesome! Thanks.