md file not saved as date

[maartenhendrix]

I'm trying to get this to work on my mac but i don't think the date part works as creating an entry will not create a date file as shown below.

Maarten:stup/ $ stup add @ today -n "test test"
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
Successfully added 1 notes in category work for
Maarten:stup/ $ ls
categories.conf work
Maarten:stup/ $ ls work
--.md

How can I fix this?

[Deleted user]

You're not the only one having problems with date—look at #6 (comment), the solution might work also for you.

[maartenhendrix]

Still same result after installing coreutils with brew:

Maarten:~/ $ brew install coreutils
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 2 taps (homebrew/core and homebrew/cask).
==> Updated Formulae
awscli ✔         bochs            erlang@21        exploitdb        gjs              logtalk          platformio       rust             vgmstream

==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/coreutils-8.32.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/67/67a4452d75a1882bd7fb977b384204edfa2758276d66290e595487922368e093?__gda__=exp=1588079851~hmac=747ba33e
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring coreutils-8.32.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
Commands also provided by macOS have been installed with the prefix "g".
If you need to use these commands with their normal names, you
can add a "gnubin" directory to your PATH from your bashrc like:
  PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/coreutils/8.32: 476 files, 9.2MB
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
Pruned 1 symbolic links and 2 directories from /usr/local
Maarten:~/ $ stup add @ today -n "test test" 
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
Successfully added 1 notes in category work for
Maarten:~/ $ cd stup
Maarten:stup/ $ ls
categories.conf work
Maarten:stup/ $ ls work
--.md
Maarten:stup/ $ gdate
Tue Apr 28 15:06:02 CEST 2020
Maarten:stup/ $ ls
categories.conf work
Maarten:~/ $ rm -rf stup 
Maarten:~/ $ stup --configure 
Please specify which directory stup will be using to store your notes.
By default, the notes will be stored in /Users/Maarten/stup.
>>> Press enter to use the default location or fill in your desired destination:
Keeping default directory.
Please specify which category will be your default one (if you have many).
The default category is currently set to "work".
>>> Press enter to keep the default or fill in a new one (ex. review):
Default category still set to "work".
Please specify which editor you want to use when manually editing your notes.
The default editor is currently set to "vim".
>>> Press enter to keep the default or fill in a new one (ex. vim):
Keeping the default editor: vim.
The config file contains some more goodies, would you like to edit it now?
>>> Type yes|y to edit the file or anything else to abort:
Maarten:~/ $ stup add @ today -n "test test"
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
Successfully added 1 notes in category work for
Maarten:~/ $ ls stup/work
--.md

[Deleted user]

Have you tried it with stup at the commit mentioned in that comment?

[maartenhendrix]

Sorry i'm on master.
So that might have been the problem why it did not work. sorry about that.
Thanks for the nice tool by the way love it.

[iridakos]

Hi @maartenhendrix and thanks for reporting.

Did you solve the problem? Unfortunately, I can't test the script on OSX.

[maartenhendrix]

Yes it fixes the problem

[iridakos]

@all-contributors please add @tiosgz for question.

[allcontributors]

@iridakos

I've put up a pull request to add @tiosgz! 🎉

[iridakos]

Hi @maartenhendrix , thanks to @haganbmj you most probably can use version 0.1.5 which takes cares of the missing date function in OSX.

I will close the issue for now but in case you have the same problem again feel free to reopen it.

Thansk for reporting!