Request for date-time render output variable

[sboerner]

I'm wondering if it might be possible to add two render output variables to insert the system date and time into a filename. For example:

${DATE} or ${SYSTEMDATE} in YYYYMMDD format so today would be 20210405

and

${TIME} or ${SYSTEMTIME} in HH:MM:SS format so the time now would be 13:01:22

You could then build a default output filename something like this:

${TGDNAME}_${SYSTEMDATE}-${SYSTEMTIME}.%04d.exr

so every rendering would get a unique filename.

I'm doing this manually now but having it built in would be cool.

[WAS]

Id love just to have just the vars themselves that way you could format the way you want. So like {YY}, {MM}, {DD}, {HH}, {MM}, {SS}

[Dune]

Good idea!