Handlebar Helper Function: Now

Returns the current date and time. This function takes no parameters and always returns the current server timestamp. You can’t specify a time zone for this function.

This helper is available in the Summer ’26 release of Marketing Cloud Next (API version 67.0).

This function doesn’t accept any parameters. If you pass parameters, they’re ignored.

The function returns the current server date and time as a date-time value in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The output resembles this example: 2026-05-01T15:01:13.