You can assign the current value of a date or time field by using the Oracle BPEL XPath function getCurrentDate, getCurrentTime, or getCurrentDateTime, respectively. In addition, if you have a date-time value in the standard XSD format, you can convert it to characters more suitable for output by calling the Oracle BPEL XPath function formatDate.

For related information, see section 9.1.2 of the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services Specification and section 8.3.2 of the Web Services Business Process Execution Language Specification Version 2.0.

For information about XPath functions and the Expression Builder, see XPath Extension Functions.