If you need to retrieve and display today's date, there are two ways of doing this:
1. Using JavaScript built-in function to get the current date:
var d = new Date();
var datestring = d.getDate() + "-" + (d.getMonth()+1) + "-" + d.getFullYear();
datestring;Check the calculation in the calculation field helper here.
2. Using the Moment.js library:
var today = moment();
var today_formatted = today.format('DD-MM-YYYY');
today_formatted;
By adjusting the format template between the brackets, it is possible to define how today's date should be outputted, for example:
- 'DD-MMM-YYYY' for 13-Aug-2021
- 'MMM-YYYY' for Aug-2021
- 'YYYY-MM-DD' for 2021-08-13
Check the calculation in the calculation field helper here.