now can be used to return the current date and time.

{{ now }}

Which should return something like this.

2023-05-24 12:57:45.125776

now.year can be used to return the current year.

{{ now.year }}

now.month can be used to return the current month.

{{ now.month }}

strftime can be used to format the date and time.

{{ now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}

strptime can be used to create a date time object using a literal date time string.

{{ now.strptime('2022-11-23', '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%Y') }}

Sometimes, strftime and strptime can used inline to convert literal date time string into a date time object and to then format the date.

{{ now.strptime('2022-11-23', '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%Y') }}

And if you are looping through a list, such as looping through a list of rows in a database, you could do something like this. The tilde is used to convert the int object into a string.

{% for row in results%}
{% set datetime_object = now.strptime("" ~ row['date_updated'] ~ "", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S").strftime("%m/%d/%Y") %}
{% endfor %}

Following are commonly used options.