The Today and Now functions are a very convenient way to show you the current date and time. By entering the Today formula into your cell, the result is the current date in mm/dd/yyyy format.By entering the Now function in your cell, the result will return a timestamp including the current date and time.This will be displayed in the same date format as the Today function with the time format being hh:mm:ss.y entering the Now function in your cell, the result will return a timestamp including the current date and time. This will be displayed in the same date format as the Today function with the time format being hh:mm:ss.