vhanda
September 29, 2021, 2:19pm
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Hello. I’d like an easy way to get today’s date. It took me a longer time to figure out that I have to resort to javascript.
This seems like a simple thing to implement, and I’ll be happy to provide a patch. I thought I should open a feature request before that.
I was thinking of modifying the existing DateTime node to add an extra ‘Today’ as an action.
ZXS
September 29, 2021, 2:37pm
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On the topic of dates, it would be also useful to add other operations, too:
Take a date property and add/subtract x days/weeks/months/years. Doing this in javascript is cumbersome.
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Jon
September 29, 2021, 2:42pm
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Some good quality of life changes there, don’t forget to hit the vote button so it counts.
Hey @vhanda ,
Thanks for opening this feature request. We are working on extending the expressions which would make it easy!
@ZXS , we added the add and subtraction functionality to the Date and Time. Did you try that?
ZXS
September 29, 2021, 4:20pm
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Oh wow. I didn’t.
Forget about what I said When I needed it it was not available yet, so I used the function node and forgot about it.
Looks like it’s been around for a little while too. Thanks man! I’ll try this in the next days.
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Madriax
December 20, 2021, 9:11am
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Hi @harshil1712
Did you plan to add the functionality to get today’s date ? I am trying to remove all my Function Node but I’m still stuck with it when I need to fetch the current date.
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jan
December 20, 2021, 9:36am
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Is planned but did not get implemented yet.
There is no reason to use a Function-Node to do that. It can be done in every node on every parameter via an expression as they use JavaScript.
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You can do this in an expression, using {{$today}}
or {{$now}}
. More information on working with dates here
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