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Outputting date on a keypress

Sending a string of the date? Question posted by jma0612 and answered by the community.

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Published July 18, 2021

One solution seems to be AutoHotKey. I tried it and can confirm that this script works fine (on pressing Win+Space in this specific case):

#Space::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return
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Published on Sun 18th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #35 (source).


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