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The \date command declares text to be the document's date. With no \date command, the current date is used.

The \date command declares text to be the document's date. With no \date command, the current date is used.

LaTeX defines the counter \day for the day of the month (nominally with value between 1 and 31), \month for the month of the year (nominally with value between 1 and 12), and \year for the year. When TeX starts up, they are set from the current values on the system.

If you want to put a specific date then type it in the argument to \date{...}. If you do not want a date then type \date{} with the argument empty. \documentclass: This is always the first line (command) in any LaTeX file.

LaTeX defines the counter \day for the day of the month (nominally with value between 1 and 31), \month for the month of the year (nominally with value between 1 and 12), and \year for the year. When TeX starts up, they are set from the current values on the system.

The datetime package is a LATEX 2? package that provides various different for- mats for \today, and provides commands for displaying the current time. If you only want the time commands but not the date changing commands, you can pass the option nodate to the package.

Just call \date before \maketitle instead of after it. Btw. a minimal code example should be compilable (here's \end{document} missing), further the forum has a code environment for posting code, for better readability. Just mark your code and press the Code button when editing.