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25 changes: 24 additions & 1 deletion primitive-data/dates/current-date/current-date.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ representing the present time and date.
(defn now []
(java.util.Date.))

(now)
(now)
;; -> #inst "2013-04-06T14:33:45.740-00:00"

;; A few seconds later...
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use +currentTimeMillis+ as some sort of unique value - UUIDs do
a much better job of this.

If you decide you would rather use
https://github.com/clj-time/clj-time[clj-time] to work with dates, it
provides the a function +clj-time.core/now+ to get the current +DateTime+.

[source,clojure]
----
(require '[clj-time.core :as timec])

(timec/now)
;; -> #<DateTime 2013-04-06T14:35:15.453Z>
----

Use +clj-time.local/local-now+ to retrieve a +DateTime+ instance for
the present scoped to your machine's local time zone.

[source,clojure]
----
(require '[clj-time.local :as timel])

(timel/local-now)
;; -> #<DateTime 2013-04-06T09:35:20.141-05:00>
----

===== See Also

* See <<sec_primitives_dates_reader_literal>> for more information on the
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