Function
now — the current time
Synopsis
now() -> time
Description
The now function takes no arguments and returns the current UTC time as a value of type time.
This is useful to timestamp events in a data pipeline, e.g., when generating errors that are marked with their time of occurrence:
switch (
...
default ( values error({ts:now(), ...}) )
)
Examples
Running this command
super -s -c 'values now()'
produces this value (as of the last time this document was updated)
2025-08-27T02:18:53.568913Z