Bug in frontmatter date-time property

[malex]

A frontmatter date-time property that is already set to a date does not update to current time when “today” is pressed - it keeps the time that is already set.

Current workaround:
Pressing clear date, then pressing set date.

[malex]

On a side-note, it would also be nice to have the seconds displayed in the date-time when you press “today”. As of now, the seconds are rounded off and you would have to manually set the seconds in the source.

[malex]

Tested on Linux on Obsidian version 1.13.7

[malex]

I understand that this might not technically be a bug. But for the people like my self, who use date-time for timestamping, this is a bit of an inconvenience. I’m thinking there could be a separate button for getting an exact timestamp.

[dawni]

your side-note has a feature request:

Date & time properties should be able to edit seconds

Use case or problem The documentation for the date & time property type defines the time format as 2020-08-21T10:30:00 (i.e. time with seconds). However, the popup editor for the time selector only has minute-level granularity: [Screenshot 2025-08-18 at 19.07.20] If the frontmatter contains a timestamp with seconds, the HTML element is considered to have an invalid value, which manifests as an error in a tooltip: [Screenshot 2025-08-17 at 12.43.12] Proposed solution Instantiate the <input …

[WhiteNoise]

Continue here:

Current Date and Time (Property) // Add now to date time selector

Use case or problem Current Date and Time. When clicking on the date and time property, we get the “today” function, which returns only today’s date. However, instead of “today,” I would like you to change or add the “now” function, since this would update both the date and time, not just the date as it currently does. Proposed solution Add the “now” function. Current workaround (optional) Add property created. Change to “date and time” View the Date and time selector Dont have the funct…