# Embed a timestamp

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/embed-a-timestamp/278>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 8, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/embed-a-timestamp/278 "2019-12-08T15:47:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hoodie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/hoodie/32/78_2.png) [@hoodie](https://zola.discourse.group/u/hoodie)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/embed-a-timestamp/278/1 "2019-12-08T15:47:02Z")

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Hi there,  
I’d like to embed a “created at” timestamp somewhere. I saw that [tera has that as a builtin]{[https://tera.netlify.com/docs/#built-ins](https://tera.netlify.com/docs/#built-ins)} but it doesn’t seem to work. Do I have to do something special to make use of tera builtins?

thanks

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/embed-a-timestamp/278/2 "2019-12-09T08:38:53Z")

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Do you mean [https://tera.netlify.com/docs/#now](https://tera.netlify.com/docs/#now) ? That would be the timestamp of the site generation, not the creation, which will be changed on every build.

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**Author:** ![hoodie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/hoodie/32/78_2.png) [@hoodie](https://zola.discourse.group/u/hoodie)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/embed-a-timestamp/278/3 "2019-12-09T12:03:54Z")

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that’s what I was looking for, thanks 👍