Answers.Body: <p>There is no token available to add current date. You can create a custom token using following two hooks.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_tokens/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hook_civicrm_tokens</a> </li>
  <li><a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_tokenValues/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hook_civicrm_tokenValues</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Please review documentation on how to create custom tokens described there.</p>
  
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Answers.UserDisplayName: Hassan Farooq
Body: <p>Is there a 'Token' for adding 'today's date' to a letter template to avoid having to add the date manually?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: This seems similar to https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/8783/todays-date-token-for-pdf. For your purposes the extension it suggests is probably the easiest: https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/nz.co.fuzion.civitoken
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Comments.Text: maybe add that as an Answer Demerit?
Comments.UserDisplayName: petednz - fuzion
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Comments.Text: I voted to close it as duplicate, since there already is the answer at the other link. So I figured it would be a bit inconsistent to then give a duplicate answer.
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Comments.Text: Jack - welcome to Stack exchange. Before posting a question you should always search through existing questions to see if it has already been asked (and hopefully answered) before, as I believe is the case for your question
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Title: Is there a 'Token' for adding a date to a message template?
ThreadText: # Is there a 'Token' for adding a date to a message template?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-21)
  
  Is there a 'Token' for adding 'today's date' to a letter template to avoid having to add the date manually?
  
  **Tags:** civimember
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This seems similar to https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/8783/todays-date-token-for-pdf. For your purposes the extension it suggests is probably the easiest: https://github.com/eileenmcnaughton/nz.co.fuzion.civitoken  
  > **username_2**: maybe add that as an Answer username_1?  
  > **username_1**: I voted to close it as duplicate, since there already is the answer at the other link. So I figured it would be a bit inconsistent to then give a duplicate answer.  
  > **username_3**: Jack - welcome to Stack exchange. Before posting a question you should always search through existing questions to see if it has already been asked (and hopefully answered) before, as I believe is the case for your question  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2019-03-24. Score: 0
  
  There is no token available to add current date. You can create a custom token using following two hooks.
  
  * [hook\_civicrm\_tokens](https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_tokens/)
  * [hook\_civicrm\_tokenValues](https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/hooks/hook_civicrm_tokenValues/)
  
  Please review documentation on how to create custom tokens described there.
  
  
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