What is the function to get the system date and current date in Dynamics AX?

Question

What are the function calls to get the System Date and Current Date using X++ in Microsoft Dynamics AX?

Answer 1

Use the static methods within class DateTimeUtil:

• getSystemDateTime
• utcNow

Both return UTC date and times, but will be converted to local time on display.

See Best Practice.

Answer 2

systemDateGet() and Today()

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