Datetime: now

The Datetime: now node function returns the current date and time as a Datetime object.

Parameters

Timezone—REQUIRED

The timezone in which you want the current date and time.

Formatter

Which format you want to render the date (see next section for available chars).

Output

Datetime

The datetime object.

Format option available:

Specification	Example	Description	Notes
%Y	2001	The full proleptic Gregorian year, zero-padded to 4 digits.	Supports years from -262144 to 262143. Years outside 1 BCE—9999 CE require an initial sign (+/-).
%C	20	The proleptic Gregorian year divided by 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%y	01	The proleptic Gregorian year modulo 100, zero-padded to 2 digits.
%q	1	Quarter of year (1-4).
%m	07	Month number (01–12), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%b	Jul	Abbreviated month name. Always 3 letters.
%B	July	Full month name. Also accepts corresponding abbreviation in parsing.
%h	Jul	Same as %b.
%d	08	Day number (01–31), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%e	8	Same as %d but space-padded. Same as %_d.
%a	Sun	Abbreviated weekday name. Always 3 letters.
%A	Sunday	Full weekday name. Also accepts corresponding abbreviation in parsing.
%w	0	Weekday number: Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, …, Saturday = 6.
%u	7	Weekday number: Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, …, Sunday = 7 (ISO 8601).
%U	28	Week number starting with Sunday (00–53), zero-padded to 2 digits.	Week 1 starts with the first Sunday.
%W	27	Same as %U, but week 1 starts with the first Monday in that year instead.
%G	2001	Same as %Y but uses the year number in ISO 8601 week date.
%g	01	Same as %y but uses the year number in ISO 8601 week date.
%V	27	Week number in ISO 8601 week date (01–53).
%j	189	Day of the year (001–366), zero-padded to 3 digits.
%D	07/08/01	Month-day-year format. Same as %m/%d/%y.
%x	07/08/01	Locale’s date representation (e.g., 12/31/99).
%F	2001-07-08	Year-month-day format (ISO 8601). Same as %Y-%m-%d.
%v	8-Jul-2001	Day-month-year format. Same as %e-%b-%Y.
%H	00	Hour number (00–23), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%k	0	Same as %H but space-padded. Same as %_H.
%I	12	Hour number in 12-hour clocks (01–12), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%l	12	Same as %I but space-padded. Same as %_I.
%P	am	am or pm in 12-hour clocks (lowercase).
%p	AM	AM or PM in 12-hour clocks (uppercase).
%M	34	Minute number (00–59), zero-padded to 2 digits.
%S	60	Second number (00–60), zero-padded to 2 digits.	60 allows for a leap second.
%f	26490000	Number of nanoseconds since the last whole second.
%.f	.026490	Decimal fraction of a second (variable length), includes the leading dot.
%.3f	.026	Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 3 (milliseconds).
%.6f	.026490	Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 6 (microseconds).
%.9f	.026490000	Decimal fraction of a second with a fixed length of 9 (nanoseconds).
%3f	026	Decimal fraction of a second like %.3f but without the leading dot.
%6f	026490	Decimal fraction of a second like %.6f but without the leading dot.
%9f	026490000	Decimal fraction of a second like %.9f but without the leading dot.
%R	00:34	Hour-minute format. Same as %H:%M.
%T	00:34:60	Hour-minute-second format. Same as %H:%M:%S.
%X	00:34:60	Locale’s time representation (e.g., 23:13:48).
%r	12:34:60 AM	Locale’s 12 hour clock time.	Falls back to %X if the locale does not have a 12 hour clock format.
%Z	ACST	Local time zone name.	Skips all non-whitespace characters during parsing. Identical to %:z when formatting.
%z	+0930	Offset from local time to UTC (without colon).	UTC is +0000.
%:z	+09:30	Same as %z but with a colon.
%::z	+09:30:00	Offset with seconds included.
%:::z	+09	Offset without minutes/seconds.
%#z	+09	Parsing only: Same as %z but allows minutes to be missing or present.
%c	Sun Jul 8 00:34:60 2001	Locale’s date and time.
%+	2001-07-08T00:34:60.026490+09:30	ISO 8601 / RFC 3339 date & time format.
%s	994518299	UNIX timestamp (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC).
%t		Literal tab (\t).
%n		Literal newline (\n).
%%		Literal percent sign (%).

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