From J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk Fri Dec  3 07:14:25 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:52:40 +0000
From: Jeffrey Goldberg <J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk>
To: Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Patch for rcs.sty to work with \today under babel

rcs.sty v2.9 does not pick up a babel redefined \today since it expands
\today (in an \xdef) before babel redefines it.  Below is a patch which
seems to work, but has not been extensively tested.

Also note that since rcs.sty is under revision control, I didn't feel like
tinkering with the revision numbers, so I haven't chnaged any file date
and information data and will leave that up to the maintainer if he
wishes to include my patch.

This patch is released under the General Public License Agreement

The diff is below my sig

-j

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*** rcs-orig.sty	Sat Oct 23 01:32:55 1999
--- rcs.sty	Thu Dec  2 10:43:51 1999
***************
*** 1,6 ****
--- 1,8 ----
  % $StyleId: rcs.doc,v 2.9 1995/08/02 12:09:07 schrod Exp $
+ % With modifications by Jeff Goldberg, December 2, 1999
  %----------------------------------------------------------------------
  % Written by Joachim Schrod <schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>.
+ % Minor modification by Jeffrey Goldberg <J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk>
  % Copyright conditions see below.
  
  %
***************
*** 424,437 ****
  %%% definition of |\today|. This way language-specific styles (e.g., from
  %%% the \textsf{babel} system) may supply their own way to present a date.
  
  %%% \beginprog
  \def\rcs_set_date #1/#2/#3 #4\end_date{%
      \begingroup
  	\day #3			% <-- space!
  	\month #2		% <-- space!
  	\year #1		% <-- space!
! 	\expandafter\xdef \csname RCS\RCS_keyword\endcsname {\today}%
!     \endgroup
      \def\RCSTime{#4}%
      }
  %%% \endprog
--- 426,444 ----
  %%% definition of |\today|. This way language-specific styles (e.g., from
  %%% the \textsf{babel} system) may supply their own way to present a date.
  
+ %%% Modified put the group and |\day|, |\month|, and |\year| setting
+ %%% within the definition of RCSDate to avoid having to do an edef
+ %%% which would expand |\today| before babel could redefine it.  ---JPG
+ 
  %%% \beginprog
  \def\rcs_set_date #1/#2/#3 #4\end_date{%
+     \expandafter\def \csname RCS\RCS_keyword\endcsname {%
      \begingroup
  	\day #3			% <-- space!
  	\month #2		% <-- space!
  	\year #1		% <-- space!
! 	\today
!     \endgroup }
      \def\RCSTime{#4}%
      }
  %%% \endprog