# Date Format Today's Date

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298 "2022-03-15T23:49:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kyanaloe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/kyanaloe/32/1076_2.png) [@kyanaloe](https://community.weweb.io/u/kyanaloe)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/1 "2022-03-15T23:49:12Z")

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This feels like something simple that I should be able to figure out, but I’m a little stumped.

I just want to display “It is Tuesday, March 15th” at the top of the user’s home page, but can’t figure out how to format the Now() value with a formula. Anyone have the answer?

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**Author:** ![Quentin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/quentin/32/6_2.png) [@Quentin](https://community.weweb.io/u/Quentin)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/2 "2022-03-23T09:05:24Z")

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Hey @kyanaloe 👋

You can use the date element to do this.

 ![CleanShot 2022-03-23 at 10.03.37@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/fcf7122e7415285fde27102f57e8a2586a74bc4f.png)  
 ![CleanShot 2022-03-23 at 10.04.22@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/c44dd7e441f2187b5ced861d3e47743d4bb765bb.png)  
 ![CleanShot 2022-03-23 at 10.04.40@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/8e25166382fc190c181861f5b967ff524b0b44ef.png)

It’s based on DayJS, so you can find all the formatting docs here: [Format · Day.js](https://day.js.org/docs/en/display/format#docsNav)

Also, it works with UNIX timestamps and ISO ones 😉

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**Author:** ![kyanaloe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/kyanaloe/32/1076_2.png) [@kyanaloe](https://community.weweb.io/u/kyanaloe)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/3 "2022-03-31T11:40:45Z")

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Can you help me figure out how to set it to my time zone (EST)?

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**Author:** ![Quentin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/quentin/32/6_2.png) [@Quentin](https://community.weweb.io/u/Quentin)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/4 "2022-04-04T12:35:48Z")

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If your date has a timezone already, it will be displayed in the end user’s browser timezone by default

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**Author:** ![kyanaloe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/kyanaloe/32/1076_2.png) [@kyanaloe](https://community.weweb.io/u/kyanaloe)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/5 "2023-02-11T01:01:37Z")

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Hi Quentin, I’m still struggling with this. See this picture, where the date and time should display at 7:59pm EST, but instead it displays as 2:59.

 ![timezone](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/e/e4f97081d00932066bc32d341bfa40f8cc3d308d.png)

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**Author:** ![dorilama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/dorilama/32/10403_2.png) [@dorilama](https://community.weweb.io/u/dorilama)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/date-format-todays-date/298/6 "2023-02-11T07:52:45Z")

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It’s probably related to [this](https://community.weweb.io/t/dates-now-is-wrong-when-formatted/1804/2).  
Try using `new Date()` instead of `now()`