---
title: Date
inMenu: true
template: /plugin.template
plugin: Tag/Date
---
h2(#description). Description


The date tag is used to display the current time in a specific format (the format of Ruby's inbuilt
method <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000304">Time#strftime</a>). Have a
look a the examples below to see some possible outputs.


h2(#examples). Examples


<table class="examples">
<tr>
  <th>Usage</th><th>Output</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>\{date:}</td>
  <td>{date:}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>\{date: {format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}}</td>
  <td>{date: {format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>\{date: {format: %x - %X}}</td>
  <td>{date: {format: %x - %X}}</td>
</tr>
</table>