variable %date is not working with gantt

Question

I'm trying to add a task that occurs the same sade the gantt is genrated

[Test] happens %date

why this does not work?

Answer 1

Hello E.,

For that, you must to mention the date format, e.g. "YYYY-MM-dd", as:

@startgantt
title %date()
Project starts %date("YYYY-MM-dd")

[Test] happens %date("YYYY-MM-dd")
@endgantt

See doc. here:

• https://plantuml.com/en/preprocessing#291cabbe982ff775
• format for the date

If that can help,
Regards.