Time in quarto documents

[danieltomasz]

Description

According to documentation https://quarto.org/docs/reference/dates.html#date-parsing
It should be possible to add the current time to generated document,

unfortunately

date: now 
date-format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ

translated to

  date: '2025-02-16T00:00:00+01:00'
  date-format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ

when compiling a book pdf

[mcanouil]

You are asking the format of the date to be YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ, so this is exactly what you get.
You seem to imply that the YAML is changed when you compile a book, but that's not the case and even if it is, that's definitely not Quarto.

This works just fine, see the screenshot below:

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? The goal is to make it as easy as possible for us to recreate your problem so that we can fix it: please help us help you! Thanks.

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You can share a self-contained "working" (reproducible) Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#small-is-beautiful-aim-for-a-single-document-with-10-lines.

If you have multiple files (and if it is absolutely required to have multiple files), please share as a Git repository.

R	Python
````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: knitr --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{r} x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25) plot(x, y) ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````	````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: jupyter --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{python} import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````

Additionally and if not already given, please share the output of quarto check within a code block (i.e., using three backticks ```txt), see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#check.

[danieltomasz]

Thank you, apparently I had conflicting date:now and date:today defined in different places, the last one ( date:today) probably forced time as zero in the final output, I am sorry for not trying MVE this time myself, thank you for quick response and feedback!