How to get current time in jinja

Question

What is the method to get current date time value in jinja tags ?

On my project I need to show current time in UTC at top right corner of site.

Answer 1

I like @assem-chelli's answer. I'm going to demo it in a Jinja2 template.

#!/bin/env python3
import datetime
from jinja2 import Template

template = Template("""
# Generation started on {{ now() }}
... this is the rest of my template...
# Completed generation.
""")

template.globals['now'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow

print(template.render())

Output:

# Generation started on 2017-11-14 15:48:06.507123
... this is the rest of my template...
# Completed generation.

Answer 2

You should use datetime library of Python, get the time and pass it as a variable to the template:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.utcnow()
'2015-05-15 05:22:17.953439'