UTCNow and that little hidden feature in Power Automate

If you have been following my posts on SharePains.com, then you will know about the UTCNow function generating the current UTC time. But did you know that there is a hidden parameter that comes with this function?

The UTCNow Function

One of the Date and time functions in Power Automate is the UTCNow.

And as we use the UTCNow function the intellisense offers the syntax to be used to us. So UTCNow doesn’t have any parameters. But…

Examples of UTCNow

In the below flow I’ve created a few examples of UTCNow with a formatString added as a parameter.

yyyy/MM/dd : @{utcNow('yyyy/MM/dd')}
hh:mm : @{UtcNow('hh:mm')}
No Parameters: @{utcNow()}

With the above three expressions we get the following output returned.

For all the options available to format the UTCNow output I recommend reading my post about the formatDateTime function.