How to perspective Date Time Input - default todays date, fixed time

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I have Date Time Inputs on a perspective view. I want to bind the .value to ‘today’s’ date with a fixed time, to show that way on loading. These are shift start and stop times. They both, (date and time) should be changeable, if the user wanted to select a different day/shift. I would just like to default this way on page load.

There is Tag historical data bound to them as the start and end date.

I can use now() to get current date, but then it gives me the current time too…
the dateFormat I found in documentation:
dateFormat(now(), ‘yyyy-MM-dd 00:00:00’) //Returns the current date, but forces the time to 00:00:00.

is not working. I’m getting an error and no date populated in the input.
I’m wondering if there is another way, something doing wrong? Thanks much!

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So you want to turn now() into just date?

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In an expression:

setTime(now(),6,0,0)

Will return now with the time set to 6:00:00 AM obviously you can replace the hour, minutes, and/or seconds with a property or tag value of your choosing.

In scripting

system.date.setTime(system.date.now(),6,0,0)
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yes,

and the concatonate a fixed time ideally

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Yup, that was it, seems like kind of an obvious one to miss, thanks. One minor kicker, is I need it set that way on startup, but not the value bound to it, but I got that done in the Events, OnStartup script. Thanks again.