Best way to insert timestamp in Vim?

Question

EditPad Lite has a nice feature (CTRL-E, CTRL-I) which inserts a time stamp e.g. \"2008-09-11 10:34:53\" into your code.

Answer 1

For a unix timestamp:

:r! date +\%s

You can also map this command to a key (for example F12) in VIM if you use it a lot:

Put this in your .vimrc:

map   :r! date +\%s