How to display today's date in the footer?

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I display the current year in my footer using the following code:

<vb:if condition="$now = TIMENOW"></vb:if>{vb:date $now, "Y"}

where the "Y" represents the date. You can configure this using the regular PHP date options here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

If you just want a simple date, in US form (4/29/13), you could do:

<vb:if condition="$now = TIMENOW"></vb:if>{vb:date $now, "n/d/y"}

There may be a cleaner way to do this but this works. Maybe some pros on here can suggest a nicer way?