The Date extension: getting the current time/date

Here's a very simple extension for getting the current time and/or date in the local time zone.

Sample Vocola commands using the extension:

what       day  is it = Date.Now();
what short day  is it = Date.Now("%m/%d/%y");
what       time is it = Date.Now("%I:%M %p");

tell me the time = 
    TTSPlayString(Date.Now("the time is %H hours and %M minutes"));

The default format is December 23, 2010; the second command above produces 12/23/10, and the third 11:04 AM at this moment. See here for the codes you can pass to control the formatting.

Note that Date.Now is an extension function so you can write things like Eval( Date.Now("%Y")+1 ) for next year.