TODAY

Returns the current date as a date value in UTC with time stripped.

Syntax

TODAY()

Examples

Get today's date

Calculate days until deadline

Format today's date

Related Functions

Other Date/Time functions:

• DATE - Constructs a date from year, month, and day values.
• DATEDIF - Calculates the number of days, months, or years between two dates
• DATEONLY - Extracts the date component from a datetime value, removing the time portion. The result is in workbook time zone.
• DAY - Returns the day of the month from a date value.
• DAYOFWEEK - Returns the day of the week as a text string
• DAYS - Returns the number of days between two dates
• EDATE - Returns a date on the same day of the month, n months in the past or future.
• EOMONTH - Returns last day of a month as a serial number after adding a specified number of months before or after another date.
• HOUR - Returns the hour component of a specific time as a number between 0-23.
• ISOWEEKNUM - Returns the ISO-8601 week number (1–53) of the year for a given date.
• MINUTE - Returns the minutes of a time value
• MONTH - Returns the month from a date value (1-12).
• NETWORKDAYS - Returns the number of work days between two dates, excluding saturday and sunday.
• NOW - Returns the current date and time as a date value in UTC.
• SECOND - Returns the seconds of a time value
• TIME - Returns the created time with individual hour, minute and second components.
• TIMEVALUE - Returns the decimal number of the time represented by a string. The decimal number is a value ranging from 0 (inclusive) to 1 (exclusive).
• WEEKDAY - Returns the number that corresponds to the week of provided date.
• WEEKNUM - Returns the week number of a specific date
• WORKDAY - Returns the date that is the specified number of working days before or after the start date.
• YEAR - Returns the year from a date value.
• YEARFRAC - Calculates the fraction of the year represented by the number of whole days between two dates

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