Magento: How to get current date

How to Get Current Date:
Example:

$currentTimestamp = Mage::getModel('core/date')->timestamp(time());

echo $currentDate = date('Y-m-d', $currentTimestamp);




How to format Dates:

Example:

$Date = '2013-05-15';

$dateTimestamp = Mage::getModel('core/date')->timestamp(strtotime($Date));

echo $currentDate = date('d.m.Y', $dateTimestamp);

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