Time and date variables

You may include current time and/or date in the prompt via the following pre-defined variables:

• current_time - returns current time, e.g. "12:30:00 UTC"

• current_date - returns current date, e.g. "2025-02-18"

• current_day - returns current day of week, e.g. "Friday"

• current_datetime - returns complete date and time, e.g. "Friday, February 18, 2025 12:30:00 UTC"

In order to use local time, instead of UTC, define your time zone via the timezone variable. Use IANA timezone identifier, for example, “Europe/Paris” or “America/NewYork”.

Example 1

Prompt:
Current time is {current_time}.
Greet user according to the current time.

Variables:
timezone = Europe/Paris

 

Alternatively, you can use the following syntax to specify timezone as part of time variable element:
{variable_name timezone=value}

Example 2

Prompt:
Current day is {current_day timezone=Europe/Madrid}.
If current day is Saturday or Sunday, tell user that the shop is closed.

You can use the format element to customize the time variable format. The format element uses Python datetime compatible syntax and should be enclosed in quotes.

Custom time and date format

You can use the format element to customize the time variable output format:

Current time is {current_time format="%H:%m"}.

The format element must be enclosed in quotes and may use the following components.

Date components

Component	Meaning	Example
%Y	Year (4 digits)	2026
%y	Year (2 digits)	26
%m	Month (01–12)	02
%B	Full month name	February
%b	Abbreviated month name	Feb
%d	Day of month (01–31)	22
%e	Day of month (space padded, may not work on Windows)	22
%A	Full weekday name	Sunday
%a	Abbreviated weekday name	Sun
%w	Weekday number (0=Sunday, 6=Saturday)	0
%j	Day of year (001–366)	053
%U	Week number (Sunday-start, 00–53)	07

Time components

Component	Meaning	Example
%H	Hour (24h, 00–23)	13
%I	Hour (12h, 01–12)	01
%p	AM/PM	PM
%M	Minute (00–59)	05
%S	Second (00–59)	30
%f	Microseconds (000000–999999)	123456
%Z	Time zone name	UTC, EST
%z	UTC offset	+0200