[Qgis-user] Date formula in Layout label

[DelazJ]

Hi,

Reading the help of the format_date function, the second argument should be
a string, and I'm not sure that "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" is necessarily read as
string in this context. I actually don't know what it's read as.

Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 11:19, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> It works, but it makes no sense
>
> Then please open an issue report if not yet done, to get it fixed.

Regards,
Harrissou

> Anyway thanks
> On 11/06/19 12:30 AM, Phil Wyatt wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
>
>
> Try changing the double quotes to single quotes and I think it should work
> (in QGIS3)
>
>
>
> format_date( $now,'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm')
>
>
>
> Cheers - Phil
>
>
>
> *From:* Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> <qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *On Behalf Of *Patrick Dunford
> *Sent:* Monday, 10 June 2019 8:31 PM
> *To:* qgis-user ML
> *Subject:* [Qgis-user] Date formula in Layout label
>
>
>
> Good day
>
> When I create a layout and put a text label in it I want to be able to
> show the current date using a formula. This formula can look something like
> [%format_date( $now,"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm")%]
>
> I have to put this in square brackets so that the formula is executed
> instead of it just appearing as plain text. However when displayed on the
> page, the square brackets are included in the output. How do I get rid of
> them so that I just have the numbers of the date and time displayed?
>
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