Date and time

The date and time dynamic text codes are by far the most advanced and powerful codes. They are easy to use in their basic form, but have a lot of flexibility to add offsets and control the formatting of the numbers.

There are two main options when using date/time codes: predefined composite formats, or individual components like the year, month, hour, etc.

To use predefined formats, the {TIME} code is used with the name of the format as parameter (prefixed by a "@" character), e.g. {TIME;@YYYY-MM-DD}.

The individual components can either be placed inside a {TIME} code as in {TIME;{HOUR}}, or standalone as in {HOUR}. The advantage of placing the components inside a {TIME} code is mainly to apply an offset to create best before dates.

Best before: {TIME;@YYYY-MM-DD;+20days}

The built-in format YYYY-MM-DD is just a short form for {YEAR}-{MONTH}-{DAYOFMONTH}, so the following dynamic text is equivalent:

Best before: {TIME;{YEAR}-{MONTH}-{DAYOFMONTH};+20days}