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

[Tim-Woodfield]

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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[WendyHarrison · Accepted solution]

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

[Tim-Woodfield]

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

Thanks for the help!

Tim