Current Date

Current Date variable enables you to display your Control Center serve date or printer date in text objects or barcodes. You can also print date values with offsets, for example, expiration dates.

[Note] Note

Control Center server date might differ from your computer time.

To create a new current date variable:

  1. Click the Data icon to open the Data Sources menu.

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  2. Expand the Variables drop-down menu, then click Add variable.

  3. In the drop-down menu, click New Current Date.

  4. The variable properties window opens, where you can define your variable name, output format, time offset, and other properties.

    • If you use more than one Current date variable, create a descriptive variable Name.

    • Output format defines the form of your printed date variable. Using a drop-down menu, you can select one of the predefined formats, or you can type your own format.

    • Date offset enables you to print date values different from the current date. You can also define Date offset for your Printer clock.

      [Note] Note

      You can't define negative date offset.

    • If supported with your printer, use Printer clock to optimize printing. If you use a printer clock, also use the internal printer font in your Text objects with Current date variable.

    • In Output rules , you can add a Prefix and Suffix to your output time format. To include special characters in your prefix or suffix, click the icon on the right side of the edit field.

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To use current date variables with your label objects:

  1. Place the Text or Text box object or a barcode on the design surface.

  2. Click the object to open the object properties.

  3. In the Source section, select your Current date variable.

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Your label object now presents the date variable value.