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currentdate

Summary

Returns the timestamp of the current date/time.

Usage

currentdate()

Returns

The current date/time as a UNIX timestamp.

Description

This operator returns the UNIX timestamp for the current date/time.

Examples

Example 1

{def $timestamp=currentdate()}
Current timestamp: {$timestamp}

Outputs the current timestamp.

Example 2

{def $timestamp=currentdate()}
Current date/time: {$timestamp|l10n( 'shortdatetime' )}

Outputs the current date/time in a user friendly format.

Balazs Halasy (05/02/2004 10:31 am)

Balazs Halasy (04/05/2005 1:42 pm)

Comments

  • Possible improvements in this help

    Tuesday 30 August 2005 8:48:46 pm

    Gerald

    Sometime is heplfull to have in the bottom of the explanation some links with functions related with the subject, in this case if there are other date formats.

    • Re: Possible improvements in this help

      Wednesday 28 December 2005 9:55:52 am

      William Steenbergh

      A common place to use the timestamp is in combination with the datetime() function. This can format an input date any way you want it:

      {input|datetime( 'preset', ['arguments']}

      Arguments is optional, and only used when the preset is not defined in your datetime.ini, but when using the setting 'custom'. The function description is in the documentation here ( http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...ng_and_internationalization/datetime ) and it contains a table with all formatting options. So this:

        {let date=currentdate()|datetime(custom, '%l %d %F %Y')}
 
  Site was last updated on: {$date}
  {/let}


      is cheating :-)

  • See also

    Tuesday 27 June 2006 12:37:38 pm

    Leif Arne Storset

    If you need the timestamp of the current date (not the time of day), you want to use makedate.