Indesign wrong date

[melodys77646405]

Hi all , 

In my master I have set to have the date automatically (type > text variables > insert variable > modification date)

Except it says we are the 23/10/2019 6:32pm  whilst we are the 28/10/2019 11:19am

Does indesign has it's own clock ? What can I do to have it correct ?

Thanks

[Guest]

Moving to the InDesign forum from Get Started

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

Once modification is done, you save the file and close it. And again you open it, you will get to see the change.

[Aquamac72]

I tried this and it still won't show the correct date.

[coniferous]

I am having the ame problem with InDesign displaying the current date.  How do I fix this?

[RetroManufacturing]

I have the same issue! All text variable dates display incorrectly no matter which  I choose, even if I define the format, save and close/re-open, still incorrect. 😞

[default4halv1d3qoyz]

I figured it out make sure you are using capital DD/MM/YY it will put the correct date! 

[Jerome AAA]

For me, the only way to update the Date variable is to do an export.

before export

after export

Why these random dates before? why no automatic update?