tpl: Add now function

Add a now template function that returns the current time as time.Time.
Also, update related docs.

diff --git a/docs/content/templates/functions.md b/docs/content/templates/functions.md
index 23bf2a769fa42bd3764be5e13dde93fd5752f4fc..10be0f7de38b2903a44207eba3953132eb17ad68 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/content/templates/functions.md
+++ b/docs/content/templates/functions.md
@@ -804,6 +804,10 @@ For more information about string translations, see [Translation of strings]({{<
 * `{{ (time "2016-05-28").YearDay }}` → 149
 * `{{ mul 1000 (time "2016-05-28T10:30:00.00+10:00").Unix }}` → 1464395400000 (Unix time in milliseconds)
 
+### now
+
+`now` returns the current local time as a [`time.Time`](https://godoc.org/time#Time).
+
 ## URLs
 ### absLangURL, relLangURL
 These are similar to the `absURL` and `relURL` relatives below, but will add the correct language prefix when the site is configured with more than one language.

diff --git a/tpl/template_funcs.go b/tpl/template_funcs.go
index c6bf66106061d9e778731c74426366b0054e1654..fd33374541128bacedefc7d34a2c200e80e318c9 100644 (file)
--- a/tpl/template_funcs.go
+++ b/tpl/template_funcs.go
@@ -2146,6 +2146,7 @@ func initFuncMap() {
                "modBool":       modBool,
                "mul":           func(a, b interface{}) (interface{}, error) { return helpers.DoArithmetic(a, b, '*') },
                "ne":            ne,
+               "now":           func() time.Time { return time.Now() },
                "partial":       partial,
                "partialCached": partialCached,
                "plainify":      plainify,