Today's date. The current date. raw, human, and diff do nothing on this tag; timestamp, time, and format work.
On the test entry, {today} gives January 15, 2026.
| Product | Gravity Forms |
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| Requires | Gravity Forms 2.6.0.1 or later |
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| Needs an entry | No |
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Modifiers
What to show
| Modifier | Description | Requires |
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timestamp | Unix timestamp. A true UTC timestamp on {today}. On the entry's dates it is the site's local time shifted by its time-zone offset, so it is off by that offset on a site not set to UTC. | Gravity Forms 1.9 or later |
Change the output
| Modifier | Description | Requires |
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format | Custom date format. A PHP date() format, written after it: {date_created:format:Y-m-d}. Write a colon inside the format as \:. See PHP's table of date format letters. A comma needs no backslash here; \, also works. | Gravity Forms 1.9 or later |
Other settings
| Modifier | Description | Requires |
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time | Include the time. Ignored with raw, timestamp, or diff. | Gravity Forms 1.9 or later |
Examples
Output from the real plugin code, run on a test entry.
| Merge tag | Output |
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{today} | January 15, 2026 |
With a modifier
| Merge tag | Output | Without the modifier |
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{today:timestamp} | 1768467600 | January 15, 2026 |
{today:time} | January 15, 2026 at 4:00 am | January 15, 2026 |
{today:format:Y-m-d} | 2026-01-15 | January 15, 2026 |