Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Including the Date When I don't Specify

[JohnnyBeGood]

Hello - I do not want to include the date on my title page, but for some reason it is automatically including it.

Here is my code -

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\title{My title}
\maketitle
\end{document}

And the document displays two lines - "My title" and then below "January 14, 2021" , which is a day ahead by the way.

[Ijon Tichy]

article's (documented) default of the date is \today. You can explicitly set an empty date using \date{} (note the empty argument). However, this would print an empty date, so the place is used as if there would be a date. If you need a more individual title, you cannot use \maketitle but design and implement it manually. For a in-head-title (which is the default of article) with only a title but no date and no auther, you could e.g. use something simple like:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\LARGE\bfseries My title
\bigskip
\end{center}
\tableofcontents
\section{My first section}
\blindtext
\end{document}

For a document with title page instead of in-head-title you should use environment titlepage, e.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\centering
\vspace*{.25\textheight}
 
\LARGE\textbf{My title}

\bigskip
    
\large\textbf{My subtitle}
\end{titlepage}
\tableofcontents
\section{My first section}
\blindtext
\end{document}

BTW: I cannot say why your date is one day in the future. TeX uses the local time reported by your system. So maybe your system clock is one day in the future.

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