Date format changes after loading pdfcomment

[Former user]

Hello,

I noticed that in recent versions of pdfcomment the date format will be redefined after loading the package. In my example I use the a global class option "ngerman" as well as the Package babel (\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}), \today is therefore printed as '28. Juli 2016". If pdfcomment will be loaded after babel, \today is printed as '2016-07-28'.

Greetings, Michael

[Josef Kleber]

Hi,

with the last update I had to upgrade from obsolete datetime to datetime2, which seems to be a bit more aggressive regarding date settings. Please try to load datetime2 with (n)german option before loading pdfcomment.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/306049/display-custom-date-in-the-correct-regional-style-with-datetime2 seems to suggest that this should work. Please report back, I have no access to a TeX distribution at the moment and can not test myself.

[Michael712]

Thanks for your help, it works!

I adapted the command to \usepackage[useregional]{datetime2} so I can switch between german and english without changing the language at multiple locations.

[Josef Kleber]

Can you please test the global optiongerman with your original test file. From the thread at stackchange I seem to understand that german should work and datetime2can not deal with ngerman. If so you can maybe contact Nicola - the maintainer of datetime2 - maybe she can do something. Recognizing german but not ngerman as global options is a bit unfortunate these days.

[Michael712]

Thanks for your suggestions, changing the global option to german works indeed (but breaks siunitx localization). I will try to contact Nicola so that the package datetime2 can be fixed.

[Josef Kleber]

Not really a problem of pdfcomment. Maybe loading datetime2 with useregional option in future?