# Use actual year or take actual year from PC
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-actual-year-or-take-actual-year-from-pc/18833
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 26, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-actual-year-or-take-actual-year-from-pc/18833 "2017-03-26T11:12:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@tes](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tes)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-actual-year-or-take-actual-year-from-pc/18833/1 "2017-03-26T11:12:12Z")
I would like to use actual date as a variable in mp3tag, I use it to compare how old is a song and order it (2017 less file year)
Now I have a variable called %DATE\_NOW% but I have to write it by myself everytime I use it.
I would like to know if mp3tag has it or if I can take it from my computer.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-actual-year-or-take-actual-year-from-pc/18833/2 "2017-03-26T11:56:33Z")
The actual date is a Mp3Tag-variable called %\_date% or %\_datetime%.
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### Author:  [@tes](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tes)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/use-actual-year-or-take-actual-year-from-pc/18833/3 "2017-03-26T16:53:21Z")
Thank you!