How to insert current date time in vscode?

Question

Does anyone know of a way that I can insert the current date & time in a visual studio code by snippets?

I have looked docs but did not get any information abou

Answer 1

For more complex datetime expressions than vscode snippets can do, see Command Variable extension. It uses the Intl.DateTimeFormat format and can be used in a keybinding like so:

 {
    "key": "alt+d",
    "when": "editorTextFocus",
    "command": "extension.commandvariable.dateTimeInEditor",

    "args": {
      "locale": "en-US",
      "options": {
        "year": "numeric",
        "month": "long",
        "weekday": "long",
        "day": "2-digit",
        "hour12": false,
        "hour": "2-digit",
        "minute": "2-digit",
        "second": "2-digit"
      },
      "template": "${month} ${day}, (${weekday}), ${year} - ${hour}:${minute}::${second}"
    }
  },

to produce

March 25, (Wednesday), 2020 - 21:16::49

and many other timestamp versions. See the possibilities at Intl.DateTimeFormat