topic How can I label the current date within a label expression? in Mapping Questions

How can I label the current date within a label expression?

Tim-Woodfield — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:10:51 GMT

Is there a way that I can label the current date from within a label expression without pulling from a field in the attribute table? I've been trying to use datetime.now() and datetime.today() but haven't been able to get those to work.

Thanks!

Tim

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Re: How can I label the current date within a label expression?

WendyHarrison — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:49:55 GMT

Hi Timothy,

try:

def FindLabel ( 😞
myVar = datetime.datetime.now()
return myVar.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

you can then format from there

def FindLabel ( 😞
myVar = datetime.datetime.now()
return myVar.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

Thanks

Wendy

Re: How can I label the current date within a label expression?

Tim-Woodfield — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:14:51 GMT

This worked perfectly. I was able to incorporate my existing label expression right into it.

Thanks for the help!

Tim