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How to get date in Julia

I search the docs but I cannot find a function to get today's date.I probably am missing something fairly obvious.

I just need something like

julia> today()
2014-06-25

julia> string(today())
"2014-06-25"
Solution

  • Your exact sketch now works precisely as you've written it after using Dates. The Dates module is a part of the standard library and thus is available by default:

    julia> using Dates

julia> today()
2020-08-20

julia> string(today())
"2020-08-20"

    (note: this answer has been edited and updated for version 1.0+; this question pre-dates the existence of the Dates stdlib.)