You can follow these steps to get today’s date in your flow using the step actions. These expressions are available as actions you can add to your flow. If the expressions aren’t appealing to you, the good news is there is a more user-friendly option available. Get Today’s Date with the Current Time Action This will result in a simple date-only value of today’s date in your chosen timezone. The above will return only the date part of the date timestamp using 'yyyy-MM-dd' format string. This expression also has a third argument that allows you to specify the date and time format that’s returned. You can check out this post from Microsoft for a complete list of timezone strings you can use in the convertFromUtc function. The above expression will convert the timestamp resulting from utcNow() to the 'Eastern Standard Time'. convertFromUtc(utcNow(),'Eastern Standard Time','yyyy-MM-dd') The convertFromUtc function will convert UTC to a given timezone. Thankfully, Power Automate also has an expression that will convert UTC timestamps to any other time zone. Since this is in UTC, you will need to convert it into your own timezone. The utcNow function will return a timestamp string in the format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.kkkkkkkZ, where y is years, M is months, d is days, H is hours, m is minutes, s is seconds, and k is fraction of seconds. A time zone will be defined as its offset from UTC.įor example, eastern standard time can be described as UTC-05:00 since it is 5 hours behind UTC. UTC is a 24-hour time standard most commonly used as a basis for comparing timezones.

The utcNow function will return the current date and time in Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Power Automate has a built-in workflow expression function to help you get the current date. Power Automate has built-in expressions and actions for getting the current date and time in UTC, but you’ll then need to convert this to your timezone! Get Today’s Date with the UTCNOW Function You might need the current date in Power Automate to create dynamic workflows or automation on time-based conditions. Do you need to get the current date in your flows? This post is going to show you how to get today’s date in Power Automate.

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