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title: Time & Date
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description: Instructions on how to integrate the time and the date within Home Assistant.
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description: Instructions on how to create time and the date sensors within Home Assistant.
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ha_category:
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- Calendar
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ha_iot_class: Local Push
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ha_integration_type: integration
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The time and date (`time_date`) integration allows one to show the current date or time in different formats. All values are based on the timezone which is set in "General Configuration".
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The time and date (`time_date`) integration allows one to create sensors for the current date or time in different formats. All values are based on the timezone which is set in "General Configuration".
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To have these sensors available in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file (each option creates a separate sensor that contains appropriate data, e.g., `sensor.date` for the `date` option):
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{% configuration %}
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display_options:
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description: The option to display. The types *date_time*, *date_time_utc*, *time_date*, and *date_time_iso* shows the date and the time. The other types just the time or the date. *beat* shows the [Swatch Internet Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time).
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description: The sensors to create. The types *date_time*, *date_time_utc*, *time_date*, and *date_time_iso* create combined date and the time sensors. The other types just the time sensor or the date sensor. *beat* creates the [Swatch Internet Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time).
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required: true
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type: list
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{% endconfiguration %}
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# Producing your own custom time and date sensor
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Whilst there are a number of `display_options` exposed by this sensor, they cannot hope to satisfy everyone, and large parts of the world will find that their local display conventions are not included.
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The following can be used to create a time and date sensor whose output can be properly customised to use your own preferred formatting, specified in the call to timestamp_custom() using standard [Python datetime formatting](https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior).
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{% raw %}
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