---
title: now
linktitle: now
description: Returns the current local time as a [`time.Time`]
godocref: https://godoc.org/time#Time
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
tags: [dates,time]
signature:
workson: []
hugoversion:
relatedfuncs: [Unix,dateFormat]
deprecated: false
aliases: []
needsexamples: true
---

`now` returns the current local time as a [`time.Time`](https://godoc.org/time#Time).