====== Today() ======
Category:  Date and Time function

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=====Description=====
This function returns today's date as a date serial number.

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=====Arguments=====
This function does not require arguments.

**Return value type:** Number (date serial value).

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=====Remarks=====
This function returns the current date at the time the workflow is run.  Each time the workflow is run, the date value updates to the present value.

Note that this function differs from the [[syntax:functions:now|Now()]] function by only returning the //date// portion of the current date, instead of returning both the date and time components.

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=====Examples=====

  today()  //Returns 42097 (Example run on April 4th, 2015.)
  
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===== See also =====
  * [[syntax:functions:now|Now()]]