How do you retrieve current date for Symfony2

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raffryan picture raffryan · Aug 23, 2013 · Viewed 22k times · Source

I'm a newbie in Symfony 2 and i would like to know how do i get current date(today's date) from symfony2 and display in my twig.

Any kind souls willing to help?

Thank you very much

Answer

Sethunath picture Sethunath · Aug 23, 2013

In twig 

{{ 'now'|date('d - m -Y') }}

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