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now

Returns the current date and time in UTC. Takes no parameters.
string
The current UTC time in ISO 8601 format with millisecond precision, such as 2026-10-20T14:03:12.511Z.
Response
The time comes from the clock of the node that hosts the standard library, not your node. When the call is forwarded to a peer, the value also reflects the network delay before that peer ran it.