Find the current date:

The current date in a specific format:

Another date in a specific format:

DateString supports a number of ISO-8601 date formats:

Find the day of the week corresponding to a date:

Date lists are converted to standard normalized form:

Strings are automatically interpreted when possible:

Both DateObject and TimeObject expressions include default DateFormat values:

Separators for input strings are assumed if not specified:

Give explicit separators for an input date string:

Day, hour, minute, and second values can be nonintegers:

The current year is used if not specified in a string:

Convert an absolute time to a date string:

Make a dynamically updating clock:

DateObject represents a given date:

AbsoluteTime represents dates as seconds since the beginning of 1900:

DateList represents dates as lists of date elements:

DateString represents dates as strings:

Use $DateStringFormat to define the output formatting:

DateString gives results that match a DatePattern:

Use DateListPlot to plot data with date string coordinates:

Use DatePlus to add time units to a date string:

Use DateDifference to find the number of time units between dates:

Use Order and DateList to determine the order of dates:

Explicit elements may be needed to interpret ambiguous strings:

For numeric TimeZone values, the elements "TimeZoneName" and "TimeZoneNameShort" are returned as GMT offsets:

When using a named TimeZone, an appropriate "TimeZoneName" will be returned:

The element "WeekExact" uses the same integer part as "Week" and thus will never return a value smaller than 1:

The same is true for all zero-indexed elements: