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Now

Gets the current date and time of the computer running the ColdFusion server. The return value can be passed as a parameter to date functions such as DaysInYear or FirstDayOfMonth.

A date/time object; the current date and time of the computer running the ColdFusion server.

Date and time functions

Now()

CreateDateTime, DatePart

<h3>Now Example</h3>
<p>Now returns the current date and time as a valid date/time object.

<p>The current date/time value is <cfoutput>#Now()#</cfoutput>
<p>You can also represent this as <cfoutput>#DateFormat(Now())#,
 #TimeFormat(Now())#</cfoutput>
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