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title: "date now · RUAL Documentation"
description: "Gives you the current date based on your timezone."
canonical: https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date,timezone/date_currentdate
language: en
---

# date now

This block is part of the [`date`](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date) group and was last modified in core [`v10.4.28`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/100428).

Gives you the current date based on your timezone.

- date `date` The current date based on your timezone.

[date now](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date/date_currentdate) outputs the current date, optionally for the timezone on the tz pin. Here it is [cast to value](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/type casting/date_convert_to_value) and combined with a fixed prefix using [concatenate values](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/value/value_concatenate), the everyday pattern for timestamps in messages and file names.

![Studio canvas example for the date now block: stamping the current date.](https://docs.rual.nl/canvas-examples/date_currentdate.png)

### Commonly used with

In production blueprints, this block is most often wired together with:

- [remove document](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/storage/function_remove_document): this block feeds into it. Removes the given document from the given storage.

- [remove multiple documents](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/storage/function_remove_documents): this block feeds into it. Removes multiple documents from the given storage.

- [plus hours](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date/date_add_hours): this block feeds into it. Plus an selected amount of hours to your given date.

- [plus days](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date/date_add_days): this block feeds into it. Plus an selected amount of days to your given date.

- [set fields](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/mutations/mutations_set_bp_field_multiple): this block feeds into it. Generates an array of mutations based on the given filled fields.

- [plus months](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/date/date_add_months): this block feeds into it. Plus an selected amount of years to your given date.

### Used in these guides

These documentation pages use or explain this block:

- [Tips & tricks](https://docs.rual.nl/blueprints/tips-and-tricks)

### Version history

Introduced in [`v10.4.28`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/100428).