Re: [PATCH]: ox-latex: omit empty date

[Max Nikulin]

On 31/07/2022 09:38, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
> > > All the above makes sense. Do I miss something?
> >
> > To be precise, \date is not exported to LaTeX file, but current date
> > appears in PDF. That is why I consider the change as a breaking one.
> >
> > Try to export to PDF the following document.
> >
> > ---- >8 ----
> > #+options: title:t
> > # #+options: date:nil
> > # #+date:
> > #+title: Title
> > test
> > ---- 8< ----
> >
> > PDF file is produced with current date. Before the patch it was possible
> > to suppress date in PDF file by removing comment for either "#+options:
> > date:nil" or for "#+date:". With current main branch HEAD some other
> > workaround is required. I think, it is not what is expected from the
> > description of the #+options: keyword:
>
> Agree. I did not know about this LaTeX default.
>
> Bob, do you have any ideas? I am inclined to revert the patch.

We may ask the maintainer of ox-latex Daniel Fleischer if a better way 
to handle \date exists.

Bob, could you, please, provide more detail concerning your use case and 
the purpose of the patch?