hugo/docs/content/en/functions/now.md

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now	now	Returns the current local time	https://godoc.org/time#Time	2017-02-01	2017-02-01	2017-04-30	functions	docs parent functions	dates time	now			Unix dateFormat	false

See time.Time.

For example, building your site on June 24, 2017, with the following templating:

<div>
    <small>&copy; {{ now.Format "2006"}}</small>
</div>

would produce the following:

<div>
    <small>&copy; 2017</small>
</div>

The above example uses the .Format function, which page includes a full listing of date formatting using Golang's layout string.

{{% note %}} Older Hugo themes may still be using the obsolete Page’s .Now (uppercase with leading dot), which causes build error that looks like the following:

ERROR ... Error while rendering "..." in "...": ...
executing "..." at <.Now.Format>:
can't evaluate field Now in type *hugolib.PageOutput

Be sure to use now (lowercase with no leading dot) in your templating. {{% /note %}}