Re: [gedit-list] Recent changes to Gedit

[Michael Watts <zwy648rct gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Mark Ballard
<markjballard googlemail com> wrote:
> I have
> been recording research notes for some considerable time in the format
> 10/01/12. I might in retrospect adapt my dates to include a time, but then I
> would choose the following format, which was available to me under the
> previous version: "10/01/12 19:24:58".

Agreed, the insert date feature is really useful.

In the meantime, you could use the External Tools plugin to insert the
output of the system's date command at the cursor position, and bind
it to a suitable key combination.

date +%d/%m/%y gives 10/01/12

date +%-d/%-m/%y gives 10/1/12

date +%d/%m/%y %k:%M:%S gives 10/01/12 19:24:58