# Is it possible to get current date in Kibana canvas markdown?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763 "2022-12-08T09:54:30Z")
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### Author: ![Dovydas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dovydas/32/97523_2.png) [@Dovydas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dovydas)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/1 "2022-12-08T09:54:30Z")

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Hi, I'm trying to display current date in Kibana canvas as part of my data overview, is it possible to get the current date or should I use different solution?

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### Author: ![Lisa\_Jung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lisa_jung/32/90980_2.png) [@Lisa\_Jung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lisa_Jung)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/2 "2022-12-08T14:17:05Z")

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Hi @Dovydas!

Thank you so much for reaching out.

The answer to your question can be found here.

> [@Canvas display current date](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-display-current-date/246068):
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> Hi, I am looking to put the current date in to canvas for our reports, any ideas how i could do this? Thanks

Hope you find this helpful! 😀

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### Author: ![Dovydas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dovydas/32/97523_2.png) [@Dovydas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dovydas)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/3 "2022-12-08T15:52:30Z")

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Thanks! 🙂

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### Author: ![Lisa\_Jung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lisa_jung/32/90980_2.png) [@Lisa\_Jung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lisa_Jung)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/4 "2022-12-08T16:46:19Z")

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You are so welcome @Dovydas ! Have a great day!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/5 "2023-01-05T14:44:55Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-get-current-date-in-kibana-canvas-markdown/320763/6 "2023-02-02T14:45:34Z")

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