Visualforce: How do I print the Current Date?

Question

How do I print the current date on Visualforce?

Stuff like Today(), System.now, doesn't work.

Haven't been able to find any documentation or stackoverflow questions regarding this subject.

Tanning

Answer 1

In your controller, create a property:

public Date Today { get { return Date.today(); }}

In the VF page, try using:

<apex:outputText value="{0,date}">
    <apex:param value="{!Today}" />
</apex:outputText>

Details on formatting the date can be found here and here.

Appellate

Answer 2

Visualforce has Data and Time functions too, you can use {!NOW()} or {!TODAY()}.

For more details go here

Claypool

I think this answer is by far the best. – Flourish