Found a nice little snippet of code to insert the time and date stamp into an file using emacs. The code is put into the .emacs file:
;; Insert time stamp
(defun insert-date ()
"Insert current date and time."
(interactive "*")
(insert (current-time-string)))
This code allows the use of ctrl-c ctrl-d to do the insertion at the cursor:
(global-set-key "\C-c\C-d" 'insert-current-date-time) ;^C^D - insert date-time
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:52 AM #