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Try embedded Markup Expressions

(:CurrentYear:(ftime fmt=%Y when=tomorrow):)

Date {{$:CurrentYear}}-02-14 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when='{$:CurrentYear}-02-14')} 

Date {{$:CurrentYear}}-02-18 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when="{$:CurrentYear}-02-18")}

Date {{$:CurrentYear}}-02-18 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when={$:CurrentYear}-02-18)}

Date 2025-02-14 is a Thursday

Date 2025-02-18 is a Thursday

Date 2025-02-18 is a Tuesday

(:NextYear:(ftime fmt="%Y" when="next year"):)

Date {{$:NextYear}}-02-14 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when='{$:NextYear}-02-14')} 

Date {{$:NextYear}}-02-18 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when="{$:NextYear}-02-18")}

Date {{$:NextYear}}-02-18 is a {(ftime fmt="%A" when={$:NextYear}-02-18)}

Date 2026-02-14 is a Thursday

Date 2026-02-18 is a Thursday

Date 2026-02-18 is a Wednesday

What I learned:

Don't include braces in PTV definition.
Add braces to stand-alone references.
Don't put quotation marks around embedded embedded PTV reference so it can "execute".

The problem with substr:

expression broken because of space in string
:First try didn't work: "{(substr {$:Last} 0 1)}" :Add quotes to fix: "{(substr "{$:Last}" 0 1)}" (:Last:the end:)
First try didn't work "" Add quotes to fix "t"

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