Getting the current date and or time in Elixir
elixir
Solution
To answer your question more specifically (though I really appreciate Onorio's recommendation to use Timex!), you can get the current date and time from the Erlang standard lib using `:calendar.universal_time()` or `:calendar.local_time()`. There are a number of useful functions for working with Erlang's `datetime` type in the `calendar` module, but they are somewhat limited, and don't provide you with anything for parsing or formatting dates, which is where Timex comes in.
Problem
This seems like a really dumb question but how does one get and display the current date or time in Elixir? I tried going through the docs but couldn't find anything. Do I need to use an Erlang function?