How to get current date/time in Shopify Flow?

[PaulNewton]

The send-http-request action now returns responses.
So use it to hit a time api then try other ways as possible fallbacks.

Flow: Improved Send HTTP request action enables secure connections and returns data to the workflow

Shopify Flow has an improved Send HTTP request action that supports a broader range of integrations with external services by securely storing secrets and returning data to subsequent workflow steps. The action can be securely configured with secrets, such as access tokens or passwords, that are encrypted and obfuscated in Flow. After sending an HTTP request, the full response is returned to the workflow and can be parsed using a Run code action with a JSON.parse method to define a schema so tha…

For giggles try making an empty liquid template with {{ “now” | date }} as an endpoint, it can cache/stale though.