Current date and time.

Platforms Supported: All

Alternative ${longdate} or ${shortdate} can be used for high performance timestamp-logging.

${date:universalTime=Boolean:format=String:culture=Culture}

• universalTime - Indicates whether to output UTC time instead of local time.Boolean Default: False

• format - Date format. Can be any argument accepted by DateTime.ToString(format).

  Note that colons need to escaped with a backslash:
  Example: ${date:format=yyyy-MM-dd HH\:mm\:ss.fff} -> DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff") -> "2000-01-01 00:00:00.000"

  Note that backslashes, that shall be passed through, also need to be escaped:
  Example: ${date:format=\\Yyyyy\\MMM\\Ddd} -> DateTime.Now.ToString(@"\Yyyyy\MMM\Ddd") -> Y2000M01D01"

• culture - Culture used for rendering. Default: InvariantCulture

NLog uses local-time by default, but because conversion from machine-time to local-time has an overhead, then NLog uses cached time-source FastLocal with 15ms time-precision that follows Environment.TickCount. For high time-precision and still fast performance, then consider using Time-source AccurateUtc (Time-precision of 1ms)