# Automatically List Current Date and Track Time?

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/automatically-list-current-date-and-track-time/1641>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/automatically-list-current-date-and-track-time/1641 "2020-06-11T18:17:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![NorthernScott](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/northernscott/32/4610_2.png) [@NorthernScott](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/NorthernScott)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/automatically-list-current-date-and-track-time/1641/2 "2020-09-21T05:40:55Z")

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I would love this feature as well, though in my case I’d love an option so that the date / time stamp doesn’t auto-update when the file is modified. A creation datetime rather than a last modified datetime.

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