How can i get the current date in. a grafana alert annotation

Grafana Alerting
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I’m trying to get the current date(dont mind if the time is there) out in a grafana alert annotation i have tried
{{ now }}
and
{{ startsAt }}

But no luck from what i can see theres no obvious way to do this or am i missing something

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Annotation templates do not offer this field pr function. Please open a feature request, or better a pull request that introduces it. I think adding a timestamp when the rule was evaluated (see evaluatedAt) has good chances to be approved.
We can add it here.