Modify date shortcut for different format (yyyy-mm-dd)

[jon-heard]

Question copied from a user on a different forum:

Is it possible to change the output of ";;date;" from "dd/mm/yyyy" to "yyyy-mm-dd" (including using dashes instead of forward slashes)?

[jon-heard]

Go into the Inline Scripts settings and find the shortcut ^date$.

If you change the Expansion string from:

return new Date().toLocaleDateString();

to:

return new Date().toISOString().split("T")[0];

Then the shortcut should output in the format "yyyy-mm-dd".

Alternately, if you want more control over the output, this also works:

const d = new Date();
return d.getFullYear() + "-" + ((d.getMonth()+1)+"").padStart(2, 0) + "-" + (d.getDate()+"").padStart(2, 0);