Iterate through dates

Question

I want to create a one day per page calendar. I create the pages in a for loop, but I don't know how to save and increase it each iteration.

I thought about saving day, month and year separated, but then I would have to save how many days each month has and which years are leap years.

Is there a way to save a date and/or increase it?

user31729 · Answer

There's an old package, that temporarily sets the date with AdvanceDate.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{pgffor}
usepackage{advdate}

begin{document}
ThisDay{0} % Set the day number to zero
ThisMonth{1} % Start in January
%ThisYear{2017} % for example
foreach x in {1,...,365} {%
  AdvanceDate[x]
  {hfillhugetextbf{today}hfill}  % Just as an example
  clearpage
}

end{document}

As can be seen from the screen shot the AdvanceDate command is aware of leap years

John · Answer

Here is an answer using pgf macros, see Section 90 "Date and Calendar Utility Macros" of the manual:
documentclass{article}

usepackage{pgfcalendar}

begin{document}
pgfcalendar{cal}{2020-08-11}{2020-08-15}{%
  centeringhugebfseries%
  pgfcalendarshorthand wt,                         % weekdayname,
  pgfcalendarshorthand mt pgfcalendarcurrentday, % monthname dayofmonth,
  pgfcalendarcurrentyearclearpage%                % year
}
end{document}

The same, but using a shorthand as suggested by the manual:
documentclass{article}

usepackage{pgfcalendar}

begin{document}
let%=pgfcalendarshorthand
pgfcalendar{cal}{2020-08-11}{2020-08-15}{%
  centeringhugebfseries%
  %wt, %mt %d0, %y0clearpage%
}
end{document}

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Iterate through dates

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