# List of magic words

**URL:** <https://forum.alumio.com/t/list-of-magic-words/2094>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** data-transformer\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/list-of-magic-words/2094 "2025-06-19T20:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![vosy](https://forum.alumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/ecd19e/32.png) [@vosy](https://forum.alumio.com/u/vosy)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/list-of-magic-words/2094/1 "2025-06-19T20:29:08Z")

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Hi id like to ask, do we have any list of magic words like “now” in Setter Value and combination with Mapper Format: Date ??

 ![Screenshot 2025-06-19 at 22.25.17](https://alumio-forum.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/2/235f204786206c945325695e5e465e26c8f52038.png)

“now” is only word but with mapper Format: Date it create date 😃

do we have any next magic words for Setter with any Mapper?

Crazzy question but, yea … 🙂

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**Author:** ![m.arief](https://forum.alumio.com/user_avatar/forum.alumio.com/m.arief/32/1568_2.png) [@m.arief](https://forum.alumio.com/u/m.arief)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.alumio.com/t/list-of-magic-words/2094/2 "2025-06-20T08:20:14Z")

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Hi @vosy,

Unfortunately, As this is kind of combination of words, therefore we can’t list them all, However, these are a few of them

### **Common Predefined Date/Time Strings in PHP**

| **Keyword** | **Meaning** |
| --- | --- |
| “now” | Current date and time (default if no argument passed) |
| “today” | Today’s date at midnight |
| “yesterday” | Midnight of the previous day |
| “tomorrow” | Midnight of the next day |
| “midnight” | Today at 00:00 (same as “today”) |
| “noon” | Today at 12:00 |
| “this week” | Start of current week (usually Monday) |
| “last week” | Start of previous week |
| “next week” | Start of next week |
| “this month” | Start of current month |
| “last month” | Start of previous month |
| “next month” | Start of next month |
| “this year” | Start of current year |
| “last year” | Start of previous year |
| “next year” | Start of next year |

### **Relative Modifiers**

| **Keyword Example** | **Meaning** |
| --- | --- |
| “+1 day” or “1 day” | One day from now |
| “-2 weeks” | Two weeks ago |
| “+3 months” | Three months from now |
| “+1 year” | One year from now |
| “-1 hour” | One hour ago |
| “+30 minutes” | 30 minutes from now |
| “next Monday” | Next occurrence of Monday |
| “last Friday” | Most recent Friday before today |
| “first day of next month” | The 1st of the next month |
| “last day of this month” | Last calendar day of this month |

For the complete combination lists, you can refer to this documentation [PHP: Supported Date and Time Formats - Manual](https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php)