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Dániel Dékány commented on FREEMARKER-179:
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This occurred to me too for a few times, so, I guess it will be added in the
next version.
> Allow to override current date and time in `.now` built in variable
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> Key: FREEMARKER-179
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FREEMARKER-179
> Project: Apache Freemarker
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: engine
> Affects Versions: 2.3.29
> Reporter: Jan Novotný
> Priority: Minor
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> It would be handy if `.now` variable can be overriden by a custom code to a
> fixed date. My use-case is rather special - we use Freemarker in
> directmailing app when e-mails are generated for several minutes (date and
> time changes) but I need to have fixed date and time for the sake of
> statistics gathering. I've prepared special variable `sentDate` but the
> developers keep using `.now` and cause problems by this.
> It's hard to fight the habit, so that it would be useful for me to override
> the "now" for certain scope of Freemarker generation process and just alter
> "now" so that it is correct for my use-case but it's not possible now - in
> `freemarker.core.BuiltinVariable#_eval` the `now` variable is defined as `new
> Date()` which cannot be changed in any way.
> Another use-case when this may be helpfull is for junit testing - when fixing
> date and time is required for repeatability of the test execution that uses
> `.now` inside tested FreeMarker template.
> Thank you for consideration.
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