Current UTC Date and Weekday

Return the current UTC timestamp and its matching English weekday when you run the workflow.

Use

Run either format manually. No inputs, accounts or external services are required. The result contains date_today, an ISO 8601 UTC timestamp such as 2026-11-10T08:30:00.000Z, and day_today, such as Tuesday. The timestamp includes the time; it is not a date-only string.

Both values use one system-clock reading and UTC. They do not use the browser, city or n8n instance’s local timezone. Check the execution machine’s clock when using the result in another process. As a reusable data step, it takes no input and produces a timestamp and weekday at execution time; it does not format an input date, schedule a job or read a calendar service.

Changes to the source

• Read the clock once so the values cannot cross a midnight boundary between separate readings.
• Use UTC for the weekday as well as the ISO timestamp. The source combined a UTC timestamp with a weekday from the execution machine’s local timezone.

Adapted from Current date and weekday Function workflow in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The source export does not identify a separate template author or license.

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