title: Use todays date as a variable in Jmeter
body: <p>I need to create a load test script using Jmeter for the some apis including this one:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://myserver01.net/alert/bydate/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://myserver01.net/alert/bydate/</a>${Today}</p>
  
  <p>Now I use the date value manually , e.g everyday I manually change the date value in the request , e.g today I sent a request to <a href="https://myserver01.net/alert/bydate/2018-02-09" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://myserver01.net/alert/bydate/2018-02-09</a>. I want to make it automated so that whenever I run the test it will take todays date by default. I have seen this answers in the link <a href="http://www.jmeter-archive.org/way-to-get-current-date-into-a-variable-td512937.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.jmeter-archive.org/way-to-get-current-date-into-a-variable-td512937.html</a> but did not understand the methods.  Like the first method says to define today in command line, which means I have to do it annually every time I initiate Jmeter. I want to avoid it and make it automated inside the script. </p>