How do I format timestamp as MM DD YYYY in Postman

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In Postman  the dynamic variable    timestamp   inserts the current Unix Time Stamp into a request   Represented as the number of seconds since January 1  1970    currentTime    1510934784    However  the API I am working with expects timestamps formatted as MM DD YYYY    currentDate    11 17 2017    How do I insert the current date  formatted as MM DD YYYY  into my request with Postman

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Any future date in JavaScript   postman test uses JavaScript  can be retrieved as  var dateNow   new Date      var twoWeeksFutureDate   new Date dateNow setDate dateNow getDate     14   toISOString     postman setEnvironmentVariable  quot future-date quot   twoWeeksFutureDate

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In PostMan we have - gt Pre-request Script  Paste the Below snippet  const dateNow   new Date    postman setGlobalVariable  quot todayDate quot   dateNow toLocaleDateString      And now we are ready to use     quot firstName quot    quot SANKAR quot    quot lastName quot    quot B quot    quot email quot    quot SANKARB GMAIL COM quot    quot creationDate quot    quot   todayDate   quot     If you are using JPA Entity classes then use the below snippet      JsonFormat pattern  quot MM dd yyyy quot        Column name    quot creation date quot       private Date creationDate   enter image description here enter image description here

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Use Pre-request script tab to write javascript to get and save the date into a variable   const dateNow  new Date    pm environment set  currentDate   dateNow toISOString       and then use it in the request body as follows    currentDate      currentDate

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You could use moment js with Postman to give you that timestamp format  You can add this to the pre-request script  const moment   require  moment    pm globals set  quot today quot   moment   format  quot MM DD YYYY quot      Then reference   today   where ever you need it  If you add this to the Collection Level Pre-request Script  it will be run for each request in the Collection  Rather than needing to add it to all the requests individually  For more information about using moment in Postman  I wrote a short blog post  https   dannydainton com 2018 05 21 hold-on-wait-a-moment

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My solution is similar to Payam s  except I am using   older code   postman setGlobalVariable  quot currentDate quot   new Date   toLocaleDateString     pm globals set  quot currentDate quot   new Date   toLocaleDateString      If you hit the  quot 3 dots quot  on the folder and click  quot Edit quot   Then set Pre-Request Scripts for the all calls  so the global variable is always available

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