Realtime Date Time display in Text Box

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It is probably obvious, but I haven't found the simplest way to continuously update Date and Time in a Text Box.

ThisItem.Text=Now() Is static and doesn't refresh (which I think is normal)

Using a timer and setting the Text property of a Text Box to Timer.Value works, the Text Box gets updated, I tried using a timer with the OnTimerEnd Event, but didn't find a way to use it to update the Text Property of a Text Box.

The only idea I have is not very satisfying: use a concatenation of the Now() result and Timer.Value for the seconds, which is a bad hack.

Thanks for the help.

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v-yamao-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi Olivier,

About this issue, using a Timer control would be a good choice. I added a TextBox control and a Timer control in my App.
>About Timer control, I set its AutoStart and Repeat property to True, Duration property to 60000, OnTimeEnd property to UpdateContext({textbox1:Text(Now(),"dd/mm/yy hh:mm:ss")}).
>About TextBox control, I set its Text property to textbox1.

This works well for me, when the Timer ends, the Date and Time would be refreshed in the TextBox control. As a workaround, please try if this works for you.

Best regards,
Mabel Mao
Olivier 192 on at

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Thank you Mabel,
I didn't try it yet, but I am sure it works! I didn't know you could use UpdateContext() on a control's property, so thanks for that.
I will use this every second rather than every minute just so the time difference between actual time and displayed time is a max of one second.
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Hi again Mabel,

It works!
Thanks,

Olivier
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Hi again Mabel,

It works, thanks.
Olivier
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How to create realtime date and time on power apps that always repeat at 00.00 everyday?
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