Documentation for routine now assembled from the following pages:

Language documentation: Terms §

From Terms

(Terms) term now §

Returns an Instant object representing the current time. It includes leap seconds and as such a few dozen seconds larger than time:

say (now - time).Int; # OUTPUT: «37␤»

Class: DateTime §

From DateTime

(DateTime) method now §

Defined as:

method now(:$timezone = $*TZ, :&formatter --> DateTime:D)

Creates a new DateTime object from the current system time. A custom formatter and timezone can be provided. The :$timezone is the offset in seconds from GMT and defaults to the value of $*TZ variable.

say DateTime.now; # OUTPUT: «2018-01-08T13:05:32.703292-06:00␤»

Note that one may use the methods shown below chained to the .now to easily express current values, e.g.,

say DateTime.now.year; # OUTPUT: «2018␤»