Need some help with diaplying the current date in footer

[Karthik Mohan]

I have defined a PDF stylesheet for a space i would like to include the current date in the footer whenever i print the page. I used the @bottom-left { to define the footer. Is there a function to print date in the footer.

[Nágila Marques · Accepted solution]

Hi Karthik, 

By default, Confluence doesn't have this option, but it can be done through macros. 

Steven posted this answer in 2014 at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Insert-current-date-into-Confluence-page/qaq-p/313517 you can try, but be aware it may no longer work. 

There are also other topics about "displaying the current date" in the below questions:

• Current date macro in confluence?

• Current date macro in confluence?

• How do you display current date and time in Confluence using User Macro and how do you add it like a date and time stamp.

In the third post, @Matthew J. Horn wrote:

You can use the dateFormatter's formatGivenString() method to specify a format:

$action.dateFormatter.formatGivenString("dd-MMM-yyyy", $some_date)

Hope this helps!