Dynamically adding date to url string

[Anonymous]

Hi Community

Within an engagement program, we would like to dynamically populate links to include the date the email was sent out for utm tracking. Anyone know how to do this, I don't believe a system. or my. token will work?

Thanks

[SanfordWhiteman]

I don't believe a system. or my. token will work?

Why would {{system.date}} not work?

[Anonymous]

I re-looked and I was using this token within a my.token for url strings and it wasn't working. I added it to the actual URL sting in the email link and it added strange characters e.g. "Aug%2008,%202017". So I added a my.Date token instead and it has worked.

[SanfordWhiteman]

%20 isn't strange. It's the mandatory way of encoding spaces in any URL. You can't have raw spaces in a URL.

What is your my.Date token? A Velocity token?

[Anonymous]

Actually the my.Date token is not going to work as it is not dynamic. Any other thoughts?

[SanfordWhiteman]

Yes, a Velocity token. See my other answer from earlier today and use this format strong:

  "yyyy-MM-dd"