{"id":51064,"date":"2026-01-07T03:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=51064"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:13:33","slug":"spreadsheets-today-vs-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-today-vs-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets: today vs now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Google Sheets: the tutor mentions the today() and now() functions.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Google Sheets, =today() will give the date, such as 1\/6\/2026 for January 6, 2026. That&#8217;s American format, it seems&#8230;anyway, it&#8217;s what Google Sheets does for me.<\/p>\n<p>\nStill in Google Sheets, =now() will give the date followed by the time: 1\/6\/2026 18:59:03.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Google Sheets: the tutor mentions the today() and now() functions. The following is according to my understanding. In Google Sheets, =today() will give the date, such as 1\/6\/2026 for January 6, 2026. That&#8217;s American format, it seems&#8230;anyway, it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-today-vs-now\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets: today vs now<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065],"tags":[3936,3935,3937,3934],"class_list":["post-51064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spreadsheets","tag-date-and-time","tag-date-functions","tag-date-only","tag-google-sheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51066,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions\/51066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}