How do I create a timestamp in an embed with pycord? - discord

Question

I would like my sent msg log which is an embedded msg to have a timestamp, so it would have a footing like bot_name • Today at 10:48 PM
Here is my current code,
#bot.event
async def on_message(ctx):
if ctx.author.bot: return
else:
log_msg = bot.get_channel(1023451687857442828)
embed = discord.Embed(
title = "Sent Message",
description = f"""This message was sent by{ctx.author.mention}, in {ctx.channel}\n**Message:** "{ctx.content}" """,
color = discord.Colour.green(),
)
embed.set_author(name=ctx.author)
embed.set_footer(text="bot_name")
await log_msg.send(embed=embed)```

Answer 1

You could do the following:
(remaining of your code)
now = datetime.now() # Gets your current time as a datetime object
embed.set_footer(text=f'bot_name • Today at {now.strftime("%H:%M")}') # Set your embed footer with the formatted time
await log_msg.send(embed=embed) # Sends your footer (already present in your original code)
If you don't have it imported already, you'll have to import datetime from datetime, or import datetime and do datetime.datetime.now() instead of just datetime.now()

Answer 2

You can use ctx.message.created_at to add a timestamp. That would look like this in the context of your code:
#bot.event
async def on_message(ctx):
if ctx.author.bot: return
else:
log_msg = bot.get_channel(1023451687857442828)
embed = discord.Embed(
title = "Sent Message",
description = f"""This message was sent by{ctx.author.mention}, in {ctx.channel}\n**Message:** "{ctx.content}" """,
color = discord.Colour.green(),
# message created at code below
timestamp = ctx.message.created_at
)
embed.set_author(name=ctx.author)
embed.set_footer(text="bot_name")
await log_msg.send(embed=embed)
Hope this helps