Question

Is there a way to get current date and time in Yahoo Pipes?

I need this to create a pipe with only the newest questions from SO as I don’t want to wait for SO team to implement RSS for this…

Answer 1

The Date Builder module converts a
text string into a datetime value. You
can pick a date using the handy
built-in calendar widget, enter a text
string into the module’s entry field,
or wire a string into it from another
module, like the Text Input module.

Date Builder understands all the date
formats as Date Input, formats like
“tomorrow” and “3 days ago”, as well
as “07/04/2007” and “16:32 EST”.

This module is useful when you need to
extract items from a feed by date. In
this example, we’ll use the U.S. CERT
computer security Atom feed. This feed
provides information on computer
vulnerabilities reported in the last
few months.
In our example, we
want to return only very recent items,
problems reported in the last five
days.

Source: Yahoo! Pipes Module Reference: Date Modules