Date/time formatting

Questions
1

I like that I can pre-populate a date field in a note with today’s date via the collection (or class) template, but I’m struggling to see how to format it instead as a date-time. The most likely syntax I could think of for the template is:

Date: today("yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm")

but that just gives me yyyy-mm-dd without the HH:mm.

I’ve also tried other variations, such as these:

Date: yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm
Date: <today "yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm">
Date: today&yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm

but nothing seems to do the trick.

If anyone else does this, could you share the magic incantation? Thank you!

2

Can you give me a bit more context in terms of your use case here? There are System Assigned Dates and Times available, if that’s what you’re interested in.

3

Sure, and thank you for asking!

The system-assigned dates aren’t ideal, because they aren’t editable and their formats include the offset from UTC and they don’t show up in standard (non-streamlined reading).

I’d prefer a generic date (date-time) field that is overrideable but that will by default be pre-populated with the current date and time in the ISO 8601 format that one can get manually with the first Paste Date… option:

Screenshot 2023-07-23 at 12.38.30

I can of course do this manually, but I’d like the value to already be present, since 98% of the time I wouldn’t need/want to override it.

I hope that’s clearer!

4

Try out the new beta, and use the value of now instead of today, and let me know how that works out for you.

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