How to set current Date and time

[Jishnu C Gopal]

How to set Date Field to Current date using UI Action

[Mike Patel · Accepted solution]

you need something like for date/time for date only use gs.now() instead of gs.nowDateTime()

UI Action

var ajax = new GlideAjax('MyDateTimeAjax'); 
ajax.addParam('sysparm_name', 'nowDateTime'); 
ajax.getXML(function () 
{ 
g_form.setValue('put your field name here', ajax.getAnswer()); 
}); 

Script Includes

// Be sure the "Client callable" checkbox is checked   
var MyDateTimeAjax = Class.create(); 
MyDateTimeAjax.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, 
{ 
nowDateTime: function () 
{ 
return gs.nowDateTime(); } 
});

As already pasted the link please use this method.

[bernyalvarado]

It depends on the UI action type. For a server side type of UI action you can simply do:

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();
current.myDateFieldName = gdt.getDate();

You will need to replace myDateFieldName with the actual field you want to assign the date to 🙂

Thanks,
Berny