How do you display the current date and time in Crystal Reports?

Question

How do you display the current date and time in Crystal Reports?

Answer 1

Create a new formula and use:

CurrentDateTime

This would display the following:

18.05.2015 2:28:46PM

Then you can format it using ToText:

ToText(CurrentDateTime, "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss")

Which would display (same as first example's datetime) :

18/05/2015 14:28:46

Answer 2

Just to add:

ToText(currentdatetime,"dd/M/yy hh:mm") will display as 8/2/17 04:26

where as

ToText(currentdatetime,"d/M/yy HH:mm") will display as 8/2/17 16:26

(For those who would like to change the time to a 24 hour format)