# How to display system date and time on ignition window

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-display-system-date-and-time-on-ignition-window/7730>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 19, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-display-system-date-and-time-on-ignition-window/7730 "2013-12-19T11:37:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashish007pict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@ashish007pict](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ashish007pict)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-display-system-date-and-time-on-ignition-window/7730/1 "2013-12-19T11:37:02Z")

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How to display system date and time on ignition window??

Thanks  
Ashish

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**Author:** ![SonicClang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@SonicClang](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SonicClang)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-display-system-date-and-time-on-ignition-window/7730/2 "2013-12-19T15:32:51Z")

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Open the SQLTags Browser. Look under System \> Gateway. There’s a tag called “CurrentDateTime”.

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-display-system-date-and-time-on-ignition-window/7730/3 "2013-12-23T19:48:31Z")

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You can also display the host computer’s system clock time with the expression

```auto
now()
```

If this is being evaluated in a running client then the computer running the client’s system clock is used. This can be helpful at times