Today's date in named clipboard

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Hello!

I am using named clipboard to enter today’s date and don’t want to change it every day manually , is there a way to change the date in named clipboard automatically?

Thanks in advance

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The date should be in format 10-25-2017

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Screen Shot 2017-10-25 at 10.27.03.png1538×732 64.1 KB

I guess i haave done it, but how to change it's format to 10-25-2017 ?

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You can add a Search and Replace action in between your Set Variable and Insert Text by Pasting actions that replaces / with -:

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Thank you, it works great.
The only problem is it shortens the year 17 instead of 2017, how to fix it?

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It turns out there’s actually a much simpler way to insert dates in any format you like. You can just use this in your Insert Text by Pasting action:

%ICUDateTime%MM-dd-yyyy%

And it will give you exactly what you want, today’s date formatted like 10-25-2017. I should have known there would be a more efficient way to do this :slightly_smiling_face:

Here’s where I found that solution, if you’re curious: https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/Dates_and_Times

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That’s what i have been looking for :slight_smile:

Much appreciated!

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