<p>Why don't you just run the date command via the command directive in the snippets.conf? For example I'm doing something like this when writing RPM specfiles:</p>

<pre><code># RPM Spec File specific shortcuts
rlog=* {command:date +"%a %b %d %Y"} %fauthor% - %cursor%%newline%- %cursor%%newline%
</code></pre>

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