pub fn now() -> DateTime<FixedOffset>Expand description
The current instant as a fixed-offset (UTC) timestamp.
Returns DateTime<FixedOffset> — the canonical type the universal created
/ updated frontmatter fields and the log entry timestamp hold — so write
surfaces seed it without any RFC3339 string round-trip. Resolution is
chrono’s native (sub-second); the canonical writers render it to RFC3339 on
the way to disk.
If NOW_OVERRIDE_ENV (DBMD_NOW) is set to a parseable RFC3339 timestamp,
that fixed instant is returned instead of the wall clock — the deterministic
reproducibility hook (see module docs). An unset or unparseable value falls
back to the wall clock, so the default path is unchanged.