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The time and date platform simple displays the time in various formats, the date, or both.

To enable this sensor in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  platform: time_date
  display_options:
    - 'time'
    - 'date'
    - 'date_time'
    - 'time_date'
    - 'time_utc'
    - 'beat'

The types date_time and time_date shows the date and the time. The other types just the time or the date. beat shows the Swatch Internet Time.