Current Date and Time

[vadim.rogatskin]

It would be great to have a function to get current date and time. Timezone settings could be common for all users and maintained in the settings section

[Manuela_Apostol]

That would be great improvement to have, and avoid the somehow complexity of using Anaplan connect for retrieving the current date

[Sukh_Sandhu]

This is a must to have functionality. Thanks for sharing this idea.

[CallumW]

Would be extremely useful! The workaround for an automated solution is quite painful at the moment!

[Chamanpreet]

Currently Anaplan does not have a system date and we either use Anaplan Connect or Integration tool to import the current date.

Do we have any roadmap of including this into our tool

[paul_gibson]

You may want to vote on these to raise them further as a requirement.

https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/NOW-Function/idi-p/34361

https://community.anaplan.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/Current-Date-and-Time/idi-p/46550

[Chamanpreet]

It will be extremely useful .We are currently working it out through integrations.

[Rebecca]

This is a large piece of work and may nuanced behaviours. We will investigate this further for consideration on our longer term roadmap. 

[mcconachie]

I think it would be great if we could even have a function that called on UTC date and time. We could write a formula to convert based on model needs. 

[sean_culligan]

This was on the pipeline ready for release around 2018 and then disappeared so seems odd it went to 'needs community support'.

It would be a useful feature. If we could expand the users list to include a locale parameter then you could expand the functionality to give user specific time based dashboard filters. So would be very helpful.

[Jared Dolich]

Just implemented another automated process using Informatica connector to get the current date. Granted, it wasn't hard but still seems unnecessary. I second @mcconachie comment. I know Anaplan is in the cloud and as long as we got the UTC time (or Epoch time based on 1/1/1970 UTC) we can suit it to our needs. Hope this becomes a reality. For large implementations, particularly ones where we need to make dynamic decisions about elapsed periods this is a pretty standard business requirement.