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If you press the Ctrl key and the ; key, it will put in today's date. If you use the Today() function, it will always show the current date when a spreadsheet is opened. So in a cell you just have to put:

=Today()

Then no matter when you open the file it will always have the date of the current day in that cell.

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It gets the date from the system's clock. The system clock is either automatically or manually updated, depending on your system's settings.

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It gets it from the system date on the computer.

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