Get today's date in a client script?

[arobertson]

Hi All,

I'm trying to populate a read only field with today's date in the format of "28-May-2014" but notice that i cannot use any .gs functions?

[akt_snow · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

You refer to the below wiki link.

Set Current DateTime In Field - ServiceNow Wiki

Thanks,

Avneet

[johnram]

The ServiceNow Wiki content is no longer supported. Updated information about this topic is located here: Date and Time Fields

Visit http://docs.servicenow.com for the latest product documentation

[yancy_davis]

So, the wiki is sadly dead (despite still being the best source for SN answers, while I've had about a 7% success rate getting anything out of docs), and I appreciate you trying to link to docs to find the answer there.   But your "Date and Time Fields" link returns an error, and I cannot find whatever you're trying to point to via the docs search.

Docs means well, but man is it frustrating to use.

[mduluk]

Here is the script include, it needs to be client callable.

 var MyDayAjax = Class.create();



   MyDayAjax.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, { 



       MyDayDate: function() { 

           return gs.now();

       } 

});

and here is the client script

      var ajax = new GlideAjax('MyDateTimeAjax');
          ajax.addParam('sysparm_name','nowDateTime');
          ajax.getXML(SetValues);

    function SetValues(response) {
          var answer = response.responseXML.documentElement.getAttribute("answer");
          g_form.setValue('u_date_sent',answer);

}

u_date_sent is the field that I was setting the date for.