Get current time in Sharepoint Designer workflow

Q: How do i get the current time in a SharePoint Designer Workflow?  When I try to test if the due date and time is less than two hours away, the condition doesn’t work as I am only able to select [today] from the options, which seems to ignore the time component of the current date.

A: You can create or modify another list item using the workflow, then get the ‘Created’ or ‘Last Modified’ date of the item to get test against the current time.
This may result in the current time being a few minutes late, but works well.

See Get current time in Sharepoint Designer workflow for details.

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