Often I have integrations that don't pass on a timestamp but where it is desirable to have on passed through to the next action.
I've tried several things using formatter. Nothing worked properly.
Does anyone have a quick and easy way to achieve this?
Many thanks in advance
P
Best answer by StuartJLans
Hey Paul,
You probably want to check this page out - https://zapier.com/help/modifying-dates-and-times/. Putting it simply, if you want to put a timestamp, you can quite often feed this directly into your zap - {{zap_meta_human_now}}
If you need the formatting to be different, then you can do a date formatting step using the formatter to change that code snippet to anything you need.
Hey Paul,
You probably want to check this page out - https://zapier.com/help/modifying-dates-and-times/. Putting it simply, if you want to put a timestamp, you can quite often feed this directly into your zap - {{zap_meta_human_now}}
If you need the formatting to be different, then you can do a date formatting step using the formatter to change that code snippet to anything you need.
I just found that same shortcut yesterday!
You can even have it automatically adjust for timezones. For that just use: {{zap_meta_pdt_iso}}, where you can replace "pdt" with whatever timezone you need.
Thanks
Do either of you know a way to use {{zap_meta_human_now}} so that the output is just DD/MM/YYYY?
Many thanks
P
You would have to follow up the initial {{zap_meta_human_now}} with a formatter step where you can format the date into any format you want including the DD/MM/YYYY format.
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