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. [Screenshot from 2026-09-01 12-06-06] Current workaround: Pressing clear date, then pressing set date.

Continue here: [image] Current Date and Time (Property) // Add now to date time selector Feature requests 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. H…

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.

Tested on Linux on Obsidian version 1.13.7

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.

your side-note has a feature request: [image] Date & time properties should be able to edit seconds Feature requests 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).…

Bug in frontmatter date-time property

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dawni September 1, 2026, 7:30pm 5

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