Hi

My request follows on from the previous one.

I have adapted some programming (I think Kartal put it forward) so that I can put today's date in yymmdd format as the first part of name of a new file.

:*:yz::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyMMdd
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return

It sits as part of my universal autocorrect file, so is there for me to us, by pressing "yz"


In Word, I have used a great macro that lets you enter future or past dates, by entering the number of days ahead, or past you want to have a date for - "7" or "-7", for example - in a dialog box that comes up when you call up the macro

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Sub InsertFutureDate()
' Written by Graham Mayor and posted on the word.docmanagement newsgroup in
' March 2000
' Inserts a future date in a document - note that this is not a field
' Some style revisions and error handler by Charles Kenyon
'
Dim Message As String
Dim Mask As String
Dim Title As String
Dim Default As String
Dim Date1 As String
Dim MyValue As Variant
Dim MyText As String
Dim Var1 As String
Dim Var2 As String
Dim Var3 As String
Dim Var4 As String
Dim Var5 As String
Dim Var6 As String
Dim Var7 As String
Dim Var8 As String
'

'Date mask below includes non-breaking spaces (Chr(160))
Mask = "d" & Chr(160) & "MMMM" & Chr(160) & "yyyy" ' Set Date format
Default = "14" ' Set default.
Title = "Plus or minus date starting with " & Format(Date, Mask)
Date1 = Format(Date, Mask)
Var1 = "Enter number of days by which to vary above date. " _
& "The number entered will be added to "
Var2 = Format(Date + Default, Mask) ' Today plus default (14)
Var3 = Format(Date - Default, Mask) ' Today minus default (14)
Var4 = ". The default ("
Var5 = ") will produce the date "
Var6 = ". Minus (-"
Var7 = ". Entering '0' (zero) will insert "
Var8 = " (today). Click cancel to quit."
MyText = Var1 & Date1 & Var4 & Default & Var5 & Var2 & Var6 _
& Default & Var5 & Var3 & Var7 & Date1 & Var8
'
' Display InputBox and get number of days
GetInput:
MyValue = InputBox(MyText, Title, Default)
'
If MyValue = "" Then
    End 'quit subroutine
End If
'
On Error GoTo Oops 'just in case
Selection.InsertBefore Format((Date + MyValue), Mask)
Selection.Collapse (wdCollapseEnd)
End 'End subroutine
'
Oops: ' error handler in case user types something other than a number
'
MsgBox Prompt:="Sorry, only a number will work, please try again.", _
Buttons:=vbExclamation, _
Title:="A number is needed here."
GoTo GetInput
End Sub
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It would be great if there could be something like it in AHK

Will

Hi,

I was just looking at skrommel's TimeStamp program which you have been enhancing.

I'd like to have to hand two sorts of dates

1.  year-month-day, as the first part of what I name files.  e.g.  071231 let autoinsurer (that is, yyMMdd - 6 keystrokes)

2.  day of the week, then day month and year, to put the date (I'm not N. American) into letters.  e.g.  Monday 31 December 2007  (that is, Dddd d Mmmm  yyyy - 23 keystrokes for that date, inc spacebar hits)

Quick thoughts
a.  If all I need is to copy a few keystrokes, each day, I suppose I do not need TimeStamp.  Alls I need do is write them out once and copy them to Clipstep
b.  ...but might it be possible to add this feature to Clipstep?  You have added a feast of features (which I have yet to absorb, I admit) and I just wonder if I could add these, as clip 1 and clip 2, there each day for me,   
c.  I notice that TimeStamp does as it should in letting you click on the date you want, in the app, then right mouse click and use paste to insert the date.  What it will not do is get Clipstep to recognise the copy-to-clipboard command that TimeStamp did so that you can paste by using the control-v command, which is what I would do whereever possible.  Is this an oversight in the way Clipstep is written

(just made a quick dontation too!  You guys here are great)