Current date in a workflow

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I am stuck with an apparently simple issue. I am boulding a Workflow that check for the expiration date if an IDM document (via API call), the wf is triggered by a schedule. Fine. But I don't know how to get the current date to compare the expiry with. 

Is there an API call to get it? Or an even simpler way to do that?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Legacy Contributor

In a workflow define a parameter of type Datetime. Then add a step "Set paramater", select this parameter and in Expression field type NOW().