Just reference it like you would any other property.
<Text>{\VerdanaBold13}the date today is [Date]</Text>

If you want to put it into another Property you'll need a custom action to do 
that as Windows 
Installer doesn't recursively evaluate Properties at startup.

Rob

On 07/10/2010 10:14, David Amey wrote:
> Thanks Rob,
>
> Do you know how to include this property within Wix?
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com]
> Sent: 07 October 2010 10:07
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] System Date
>
> The Date and Time properties look like what you need.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905%28VS.85%29.aspx#date__t
> ime_properties
>
> Rob
>
> On 07/10/2010 09:59, David Amey wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I want to have a custom dialog which retrieves the system time and
>> date, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> David Amey
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