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Placing The Current Time In Documents

To place the current time in a document, type:

In the header:
 .de TI
 .sy date | cut -f4 -d' ' | \
      cut -f1-2 -d: > /tmp/datefile
 .so /tmp/datefile
 .sy rm -f /tmp/datefile
 ..

Within the text portion of the document:
 .P
 The time that I troffed this file is
 .TI
 and I am now adding more text.

Processed text would look like:

The time that I troffed this file is 16:06 and I am now adding more text.

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