From b062fb98e3c50a5a6a8fab827eb5f9238017d4fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Weschke <daniel.weschke@directbox.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:36:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add org macro mdate

---
 settings/org-settings.el  | 10 +++++++++-
 snippets/org-mode/article |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/settings/org-settings.el b/settings/org-settings.el
index fc33d7d9..f7cf3bcf 100644
--- a/settings/org-settings.el
+++ b/settings/org-settings.el
@@ -1160,7 +1160,15 @@ except:
   ;;             'my-org-export-filter-hyphen-shy)
   (setq org-export-with-smart-quotes t)  ;; OPTIONS keyword, e.g., "’:t".
   (setq org-export-with-sub-superscripts '{})  ;; OPTIONS keyword, e.g., "^:{}".
-  
+
+  ;; see also https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-Replacement.html
+  ;; #+date: {{{mdate(%e %B %Y\, %H:%M)}}}
+  (setq org-export-global-macros
+        '((mdate . "(eval (let ()
+ (setq-local system-time-locale \"en_US.UTF-8\")
+ (format-time-string $1 (file-attribute-modification-time
+  (file-attributes (buffer-file-name))))))")))
+
   ;; http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/93971
   ;; https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/30575/adding-latex-newpage-before-a-heading/30892
   (defun my-org-headline-string-element (headline backend info)
diff --git a/snippets/org-mode/article b/snippets/org-mode/article
index 91f4e1ec..84adec20 100644
--- a/snippets/org-mode/article
+++ b/snippets/org-mode/article
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # -*- ispell-local-dictionary: "english" -*-
 #+TITLE: ${1:Title}
 #+SUBTITLE: ${2:Subtitle}
-#+DATE: ${3:{{{modification-time(%d.%m.%Y)}}}}
+#+DATE: ${3:{{{mdate(%d %B %Y)}}}}
 #+AUTHOR: ${4:My Name}
 #+EMAIL: ${5:my.name@example.com}
 #+KEYWORDS: