currentdate

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 05/04/2005 by Balazs Halasy

Summary

Returns the timestamp of the current date/time.

currentdate()

The current date/time as a UNIX timestamp.

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

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

Outputs the current timestamp.

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

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

Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.

Possible improvements in this help

Gerald · 08/30/2005 08:48 pm

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.
1. Re: Possible improvements in this help
  
  William Steenbergh · 12/28/2005 09:55 am
  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

Leif Arne Storset · 06/27/2006 12:37 pm

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

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