How to get the Current Date & Time Automatically to a Date Time Field

I have created a date time field I made today's date as the default value, Then I added it to a page layout and created a page, But the curr开发者_如何学JAVAent Date Time is not picking up from the system.

I dont want to give the user to select a Date Time instead it should populated automatically

Is there anyway to achieve this without writing code in code behind files?

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This is very similar to this question I think

• SO - How to get Date and current time from the Date/Time column in SharePoint Custom list

My answer there gives a few options such as using the built in Created field, using a calendar template, a JavaScript hack and a custom field type.

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Guys, fake [Today] trick worked for us - but prob is we only got the date value not datetime.

Janis, is it possible to get date and time both from the fake [today] column trick? pls refer few articles on the same

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Does [Today] work?

If you have language pack applied to SharePoint, then you must use localized "Today" string.