Lua - Get current date and time

-- Current date and time.
local current_unix_timestamp = os.time()
print(current_unix_timestamp)
 
local current_date_time_string = os.date("%Y-%m-%d_%X", current_unix_timestamp)
print(current_date_time_string)

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