# Bug with Today not including time

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/bug-with-today-not-including-time/5536>\
**Category:** Bugs & Issues\
**Created:** [December 14, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/bug-with-today-not-including-time/5536 "2023-12-14T15:00:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Feger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/nathan_feger/32/8331_2.png) [@Nathan\_Feger](https://community.fibery.io/u/Nathan_Feger)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/bug-with-today-not-including-time/5536/1 "2023-12-14T15:00:39Z")

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It doesn’t seem to be possible in the app to get a Time in a formula with hours in it. Some historical notes mention a Now() function, but that doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

 ![Screenshot 2023-12-14 at 8.59.06 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/1/11c4fa5ba7c027df26f1684c4f9726378725cb04.png)

 ![Screenshot 2023-12-14 at 8.59.43 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/a/a93e845eee71a5b9d737338f1a9fe7e0cc2e13b0.png)

One other note when creating a column it would be nice to have better messaging about needing a column name

 ![Screenshot 2023-12-14 at 8.47.26 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f0908fff5ff2ce33e51dc5eaa560f737ac9ff169.png)

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/bug-with-today-not-including-time/5536/2 "2023-12-14T22:02:20Z")

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It’s not a bug. Now() is not available in formula fields because if it were, it would imply that the formula would be recalculating every second, which would simply overload the formula service.

It is however possible to use Now() in an automation formula, since that would only be calculated when the automation is triggered.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Feger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/nathan_feger/32/8331_2.png) [@Nathan\_Feger](https://community.fibery.io/u/Nathan_Feger)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/bug-with-today-not-including-time/5536/3 "2023-12-15T15:03:41Z")

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oh interesting. that makes sense. Appreciate it. I have been moving over from airtable and it’s interesting to see the tradeoffs fibery makes that seem to support a less expensive infrastructure, which I appreciate.