How to transform a date input format into an output format?

Questions
1

Is it possible, after entering
20241020
an output of
Sunday, October 20, 2024 in bold
to receive?
It should be the first entry in the first line of a diary.

Thank you
Greetings

2

Sure, it’s possible. If you are looking to get a solution that achieves this, could you change the title so that it is in the form of a question, and move this post to the Questions category? See How to post in the Questions category for tips.

Here’s one solution for it, but it will trigger on any 8 numbers that are in a row which could cause problems.

#show regex("\d{8}"): it => {
  let txt = it.text
  let date = datetime(
    year: int(txt.slice(0, count: 4)),
    month: int(txt.slice(4, count: 2)),
    day: int(txt.slice(6, count: 2))
  )
  strong(date.display("[weekday] [month repr:long] [day], [year]"))
}

On 20241020 something happened.  20220115 also had something happen.
Output

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You could also create a function that you call every time you want to convert a timestamp. That way, the problem mentioned in @gezepi’s solution doesn’t happen.

#let timestamp(t) = {
  let txt = str(t)
  let date = datetime(
    year: int(txt.slice(0, count: 4)),
    month: int(txt.slice(4, count: 2)),
    day: int(txt.slice(6, count: 2))
  )
  strong(date.display("[weekday] [month repr:long] [day], [year]"))
}
  
On #timestamp(20241020) something happened.  #timestamp("20220115") also had something happen.
4

Thank you for your answers!
It works fine, but how can I change the language? (see Questions Categorie)

5

These packages may help: