# Auto-populate current time when "Today" button is clicked on date/time picker **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [June 4, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964 "2025-06-04T10:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oscar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Oscar](https://community.noloco.io/u/Oscar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964/1 "2025-06-04T10:33:03Z")
Currently, when users click the “Today” button in the date field, it only sets the current date but leaves the time at 00:00 (or whatever’s default). This requires users to manually input the exact current time, a large amount of my clients require exact timestamps so a feature like this would just make there experience more seamless. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/noloco/original/2X/6/61547ade2a8f8687053df4ef6635619f384d7f9a.png) ---
**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964/2 "2025-06-04T10:47:57Z")
Hey @Oscar - thanks for the suggestion, I can see that making sense! Just in case you didn’t know, if this is for a form, you can actually set the `Default Value` to be the current time, to save your team even more time, if this is something they commonly need to do > **[Customizing Form Fields | Noloco](https://guides.noloco.io/forms/forms/customizing-form-fields#default-value)** > > Customize and configure form fields for truly dynamic forms ---
**Author:** ![Oscar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Oscar](https://community.noloco.io/u/Oscar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964/3 "2025-06-04T10:59:01Z")
Hey @darragh Sadly its not a form however will keep that in mind going forward. Thank you for your fast response! ---
**Author:** ![darragh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/darragh/32/12_2.png) [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964/4 "2025-06-04T11:10:27Z")
It’s still possible in any action button or any place you edit the field The only place this wouldn’t be useful if the field already has a value. You could also trigger an action button to set it to ‘Now’ if you needed to. Again, just throwing out suggestions that might be helpful to you ---
**Author:** ![jakeliddell](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/jakeliddell/32/1333_2.png) [@jakeliddell](https://community.noloco.io/u/jakeliddell)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/auto-populate-current-time-when-today-button-is-clicked-on-date-time-picker/1964/5 "2025-06-05T06:56:26Z")
I’ve usually been using the approach @darragh suggests, but I can see this being useful - for example if it was a Start Date, Due Date type field in a task list. If you want to give someone 24 hours to respond, and it’s the end of the day, you’d want the start date to be Now, not today’s date at 00:00. Now should mean, well, now! 🙂