Insert Date in Macro

Hi Simon

This should work: 

{% capture today %}{{'now' | date:'%Y-%m-%d'}}{% endcapture %}{{today}}

The output is based on UTC though, so to adjust for another timezone, you'll have to add or subtract the difference in hours. Current Eastern Time would be:

{% capture today %}{{'now' | date:'%s' | minus:14400 | date:'%Y-%m-%d'}}{% endcapture %}{{today}}

(Copied this from Jason Littrell here.)

@carsten Thank you so much for taking the time to help me by passing on this great answer from Jason (I searched and did not find!). As it happens we use UTC, so that is all good, but really appreciated you would think to reach out and help in this way!

No problem Simon - I love to help!

Carsten is killing it, per usual. :)

How do you get the time value added to that string? I want both current date and time to be captured.

If you want date and time, format the date along these lines, adjust the minus (or replace with plus) according to your current UTC offset:

{{'now' | date:'%s' | minus: 7200 | date:'%Y-%m-%d %H %M'}}

Here is a easy reference for the date&time formats: http://strftime.net/

You don't need that capture markup here, unless you want to reference that variable elsewhere. 

will generate this output:

Tip: you can test your liquid markup in the comment editor as well, before moving it into a proper macro.

If UTC timestamps works for you, you can shorten it like below (but mind the first syntax is required if you want to adjust for your timezone):

{{'now' | date:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'}}

Momentarily it's UTC+2 here at my place. Is there a way to get the summer- and wintertime automatically or does it need some more coding for that?

Hi Sebastian!

To fully answer your question I'll need to get some info on your use-case/goal.  I've created a ticket where we can discuss this, and you'll receive an email from me shortly :)

Cheers,

Hello Daniel,

A day changes at midnight. So having the date imported through the above function means one needs the exact time for it. UTC doesn't know summer or winter time. So I first have to adjust the time to the timezone but the summer-winter-time part remains. Is there a way to change this automatically? Otherwise I would have to live with a one hour inaccuracy or would have to change the amount of hours to add to UTC each half year.

Is there a way to automate it?

Best regards,
Sebastian

PS: Yes, it's daylight saving time related.